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The Dharma bums

One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac.

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  • "Dharma bums. French"
  • "Dharma bums"@pl
  • "Dharma bums"
  • "Dharma bums"@it
  • "Dharma bums. Spanish"

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  • "One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac."@en
  • "One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding."@en
  • ""This is the story of two sensation-seeking hipsters and their jet-propelled search for Experience."--Back cover."@en
  • ""Kerouac living his dream as a Zen Lunatic and rucksack wanderer on the fabled golden shores of West Coast America" Ann Charters from the bookjacket."
  • "Two young men search for Truth the Zen way in California and Washington State."@en
  • "First published in 1958, a year after On the Road had put the Beat generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful, influential, and bestselling novels. The story focuses on two untrammeled young Americans-mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer-whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras to Ray's sixty-day vigil by himself atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Primary to this evocative and soulful novel is an honest, exuberant search for an affirmative way of life in the midst of the atomic age. In many ways, The Dharma Bums also presaged the environmental, back-to-the-land, and American Buddhist movements of the 1960s and beyond."@en
  • "First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans--mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer-- whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras. -- Back cover."@en
  • "Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude, a lesson that has a hard time surviving their forays into the pagan groves of San Francisco's Bohemia with its marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, experiments in "yabyum," and similar nonascetic pastimes."
  • "An uninhibited story of two West Coast wanderers and their free-wheeling search for Kicks and Truth. Their quest begins with wine, week-end girls, and oriental mysticism, but comes to a soaring climax on a lonely mountain top. Based loosely on Kerouac's experiences with poet Gary Snyder."@en
  • "From the Publisher: A deluxe edition of Kerouac's masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of its first publication. First published in 1958, a year after On the Road had put the Beat generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful, influential, and bestselling novels. The story focuses on two untrammeled young Americans-mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer-whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras to Ray's sixty-day vigil by himself atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Primary to this evocative and soulful novel is an honest, exuberant search for an affirmative way of life in the midst of the atomic age. In many ways, The Dharma Bums also presaged the environmental, back-to-the-land, and American Buddhist movements of the 1960s and beyond."
  • "Follows the adventures of a Buddhist mountaineer and an enthusiastic writer whose shared quest for Truth takes them from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions to daring mountain ascents."
  • "Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude."
  • "Un roman à clefs qui retrace librement la vie de quelques beatniks américains, écrivains et poètes, en guerre contre les conventions, grands voyageurs désargentés, attirés par la pensée bouddhiste."

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  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Powieść autobiograficzna amerykańska"@pl
  • "Powieść autobiograficzna amerykańska"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Wrappers (Binding)"@en
  • "Wrappers (Binding)"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Adventure stories"
  • "Embossed stamps (Provenance)"@en
  • "Embossed stamps (Provenance)"
  • "Typefaces (Type evidence)"@en
  • "Page proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Dust jackets (Binding)"@en
  • "Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)"@en
  • "Road fiction"
  • "Road fiction"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Portraits"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Romány"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Translations"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Genres littéraires"

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  • "Los Vagabundos del dharma"
  • "Los vagabundos del Dharma : novela"@es
  • "Gammler, Zen und Hohe Berge"
  • "Włóczędzy Dharmy"@pl
  • "Włóczędzy Dharmy"
  • "Vagabondi del Dharma"
  • "Dharmaganget"
  • "Dharmadårarna"
  • "Els Pirats del Dharma"
  • "Els Pirats del Dharma"@ca
  • "The Dharma bums : [novel]"
  • "Brodi︠a︡gi dkharmy"
  • "Dharmoví tuláci"
  • "Dharma tuig"
  • "Clochards célestes : roman"
  • "Brodi︠a︡gi Dkharmy : roman"
  • "Os vagabundos da verdade : romance"
  • "Les Clochards célestes [The Dharmabums]"
  • "Els pirats del Dharma"
  • "Batlaney Hadarma"
  • "I vagabondi del dharma"@it
  • "Les clochards celestes"
  • "The Dharma bums"@en
  • "The Dharma bums"
  • "Dharma bums"
  • "Les clochards célestes : roman"
  • "I vagabondi del Dharma"
  • "I vagabondi del Dharma"@it
  • "The dharma bums"@en
  • "The dharma bums"
  • "Dharma bums : roman"@da
  • "Los Vagabundos del Dharma"
  • "Los Vagabundos del Dharma"@es
  • "The Dharma Bums"@en
  • "The Dharma Bums"
  • "Els Pòtols místics"
  • "Els Pòtols místics"@ca
  • "Les clochards célestes"
  • "Els pòtols mistics"
  • "Les Clochards célestes"
  • "Dharmapummit"@fi
  • "Бродяги дхармы : роман"
  • "Gammler, Zen und hohe Berge"
  • "The dharma Bums"
  • "Klateži dharme"@sl
  • "Os vagabundos do dharma"
  • "Dharmagänget"@sv
  • "Dharmagänget"
  • "Brodi︠a︡gi dkharmy : roman"
  • "De Dharma schooiers"
  • "Los vagabundos del Dharma"
  • "Los vagabundos del Dharma"@es
  • "Gammler Zen und Hohe Berge"
  • "The Dharma Bums, etc"@en
  • "The Dharma Bums, etc"
  • "Els pòtols místics"

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