Un Homme Grand: Jack Kerouac at the Crossroads of Many Cultures

. America exerts a strange fascination over Quebec. Pop star RichardSéguin’s recent album Journée d’Amérique is filled withreflections on the culture to the south. None is more poignant than hissong “L’Ange vagabond,” the vision of a transplanted Quebecker whobecame more American than the Americans—the father of the BeatGeneration, Jack Kerouac: “Au bout de ta peine / Comme un requiem / Onthe road again. . . .” A recent gathering at Quebec City celebratedthe life an... >Voir plus