![]() ![]() Tristessa es el nombre con el que Kerouac bautizó a Esperanza Villanueva, una joven mexicana católica, prostituta y adicta a ciertas drogas, de quien se enamoró durante una de sus estancias en México, país que visitaba con frecuencia, a mediados de los años cincuenta. Wrapped in a spiritual atmosphere that expresses the yearnings of Kerouac to find himself, "Tristessa", translated by Jorge García- Robles, a specialist in the beat generation, is the story of the strange loving relationship that the author had with Esperanza, as well as the significant description of the atmosphere that surrounded it, which depicts some key places of Mexico City back then.Hero of the beat generation, the creator of a model of life that would be followed by thousands of young people in the entire world, a sui generis mystic, "Tristessa", which until recently was not known in Spanish and that was published in English, is one of his fresher and better achieved works. Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties. I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow… "What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. "The most sincere and holy writing I know of our age." Allen Ginsberg My heart broke in the general despair and opened up inward to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream." His ecstatic sense of superabundant reality is informed by the knowledge of mortality: "I'm writing this book because we're all going to die. Here is the postwar America that Kerouac knew so well and celebrated so magnificently. Here are the members of the Beat Generatoin as they were in the years before any label had been affixed to them. Writing in a radical, experimental form ("the New Journalism fifteen years early," as Dennis McNally noted in Desolate Angel), Kerouac created the ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cassady during the late forties, which he captured in different form in On the Road. Written in 1951-52, Visions of Cody was an underground legend by the time it was finally published in 1972. ![]() because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart. ![]()
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