Lonesome Traveler. Jack Kerouac

Traveling through the United States, Mexico, Morocco, as well as Paris and London, Kerouac records in prose of pure poetry his life on the road: how he stands on the platform of a train rushing past fields covered with prickly cacti; how he watches his first bullfight in Mexico to the accompaniment of opium delirium; how he plunges headlong into the turbulent nightlife of New York; how he hides from the world among the snow-capped mountain peaks of northwestern America; how he meditates on a sunlit roof in Tangier; or how he falls in love with Montmartre and the majestic whiteness of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica. In the collection of short prose "The Lonely Traveler", published in 1960, as always frank and jazzy in style, Kerouac reveals both the infinite diversity of human life and his own energetic philosophy of self-realization.