by Jack Kerouac · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141184883
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«The Dharma Bums» is Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Two young men embark on a passionate quest for dharma, the truth that guides the Zen path. Their great adventure leads them to climb the high Sierras to learn the lesson of solitude, in contrast with the bohemian life of San Francisco, its poetry readings and its excesses.
This Penguin Modern Classics edition, published in 2000, includes an introduction by Ann Douglas.
For readers of the Beat Generation and Zen Buddhism, especially those who have enjoyed Kerouac's «On the Road».
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
