Cured

This book is an exploration of Jack Kerouac, the writer that a whole generation turned into their reluctant spokesman. Duval gives a voice to key figures from that movement: the poet Allen Ginsberg; Carolyn Cassadys wife and Kerouacs lover; Joyce Johnson, who was in a relationship with the writerwhen he became famous; Timothy Leary, the psychedelic guru of the sixties; Anne Waldman, beat poet; and Ken Kesey, a central figure of American counter-culture. Through their stories, we investigate the mysterious figure of Jack Kerouac, the man who wrote the most important novel of his generation to...

¿Se puede jugar al fútbol en calzoncillos? ¿Qué haces si te expulsan de un examen de medicina y te mandan al taller? ¿Cómo se organizan unas Fallas en Sevilla? ¿Es posible poner puntos de sutura verdes a un delantero sevillista? ¿Y hacer cantar el Cara al sol a un prisionero del franquismo? ¿Se puede considerar arte poner una inyección a Curro Romero? Pinceladas vitales cargadas de humor de un hombre que dedicó y dedica su vida a los enfermos.

Tango, trips, Paris, the United States, victory, women, feuds, friends and naturally, Buenos Aires are some of the issues that Oscar mentions in this moving and peculiar biography. There are numerous photographs and appendixes that cover all his works.

El personaje central de esta novela es La Malinche, madre del hijo del conquistador Hernán Cortés, intérprete suya, amante humillada y sin embargo generosamente recompensada al final de su existencia.