A masterpiece by Jack Kerouac. - Title: Zen Hippie - Author: Jack Kerouac - Translator: Hirotada Obara - Publisher: Taiyosha - Price: ¥2,000 This is a complete translation of Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, published in 1958. This work has a strong autobiographical element, with the author Kerouac reflected in the first-person narrator, Raymond Smith, and the beat poet Gary Snyder reflected in his close friend, Japhy Ryder. Kerouac and Snyder were close friends and were both representative writers and spokesmen of the Beat Generation in the 1950s (the literary predecessor of the hippies, with San Francisco as its mecca). ● Please consider purchasing this item if you understand that it is a used item, as it has been stored at home. ※ Immediate purchase without comment is OK, so please feel free to buy.