Wake Up

В середине 1950-х годов католик Джек Керуак увлекся буддизмом, который оказал глубокое влияние на его представления о духовности. Первоначально написанная в 1955 году книга “Wake Up” – это пересказ жизни принца Сиддхартхи Гаутамы, который в юности оставил свою богатую семью и уютный дом ради поиска просветления. Составленный из множества канонических писаний, роман служит одновременно проникновенным рассказом о жизни Будды и кратким учебником по основным учениям буддизма. Книга Джека Керуака “Wake Up” заинтересует не только поклонников творчества писателя, но и тех, кому по душе драматические произведения. Книга на английском языке. Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, Jack Kerouac's Wake Up is a clear and powerful study of the life and works of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, from the author of On the Road. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robert Thurman. Wake Up recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's royal upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father's palace, Siddhartha adopts a homeless life, struggles with his meditations, and eventually finds Enlightenment. Written at the end of Kerouac's career, when he became increasingly interested in Buddhist teachings, and collected for the first time in one book, this fresh and accessible biography is both an important addition to Kerouac's work and a valuable introduction to the world of Buddhism itself. Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957, that made Kerouac famous. Publication of his many other books followed, among them The Subterraneans, Big Sur, and The Dharma Bums. Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-seven.