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Tristessa

Name: Tristessa
Author: Jack Kerouac

This article refers to the short novel by Jack Kerouac. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see Tristessa Tristessa is a novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City. It is based on his relationship with a Mexican prostitute . The woman's real name was Esperanza ; Kerouac changed her name to Tristessa .

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

Jack Kerouac book Tristessa

Source: Tristessa

“I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours”

Jack Kerouac book Tristessa

Source: Tristessa

“If only I had the magic self of babyhood when I remembered what it was like before I was born, I wouldnt worry about death now knowing both to be the same empty dream.”

Jack Kerouac book Tristessa

Tristessa (1960)