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He asked me, 'how come you know so much about hell, without ever having been there.' I said, 'Dante has informed me about its heroes. And Goethe paved the way. Pascal mourned for it. And the good melancholic poet Whitman described it, Melville turned it into poetry, and my friends are chatting about it tonight.' 'Who are you?' he asks. 'I'm Little Pete,' I reply. 'Do you want to play a game of billiards?' 'After my work, and I might not sink a single ball in the hole, but I will send the first to the corner with little effort, as softly as your Devil.' 'So you are the Devil.' 'No, I am his breath. And I have escaped his influence as much as this ethereal handshake.' This point here is also the central axis of the book, of the story. In this case, the Yankees of Massachusetts say that 'the form is exquisite.'
Football, war, crime... for a young man growing up in America in the 1930s and 1940s, these are the forces that shape his life. Duluoz grows up in a dull Massachusetts town, Lowell, but his great soccer talent earns him a scholarship to Columbia University in New York. World War II finds him serving in the navy, and he returns to New York at the beginning of the beat movement. For Duluoz, this is the wild time of writing, of life on the road, of drugs, expressed in a relentless life at the edges of experience, a life that will ultimately include even a murder. For Kerouac, this book is a vibrant reminiscence of a time that opened new horizons and changed an entire world.
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- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- Publisher
- Plethron
- Original Title
- The Vanity of Duluoz
- Publishers
- Plethron
- Skroutz Book Awards 2026
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- Type
- Travel Literature
- Subtitle
- An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 290
- Release Date
- 4/2010
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789603482000
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