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“Satori in Paris: Deconstructing French Connection or the Legend’s Satori"

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Published in 1966, Satori in Paris is the story of Kerouac’s trip to France in search of his family name and lineage. If the novel has lost all the innovative and rhythmic qualities of the formers, it is fraught with many deconstructing elements that allow a better insight into not only the quest Kerouac had set for himself but also the meaning of French connections throughout the Legend. The eponymous satori resides precisely in the construction of the myth Kerouac had built throughout the various chapters of his Legend. This paper examines not only the deconstruction of the quest for the French lineage and name but the very process of redefining French connections. “What’s in a name” could precisely be the question and posssibly the answer. The deconstructing process initiated in Big Sur is now taking its ultimate step with Satori in Paris, jeopardizing the stability of the creation of Duluoz’s and Kerouac’s legend altogether by giving its ultimate meaning to the creation of a legend whose last descendant would be Duluoz/Kerouac, Jean Louis Lebris, Prince of Brittany. Satori in Paris is a voyage to the end of the night trying to decipher, redefine, and blur the French signs that Kerouac had scattered his Legend with. The outcome, or aborted experience, of this deciphering process is precisely the satori, the Legend’s satori.

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hal-03453109 , version 1 (27-11-2021)

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Peggy Pacini. “Satori in Paris: Deconstructing French Connection or the Legend’s Satori". Inaugural Conference of the European Beat Studies Network, Oliver Harris; Chad Weidner; Polina Mackay, Sep 2012, Middleburg, Netherlands. ⟨hal-03453109⟩

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