Satori in Paris Satori in Paris is a novella by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac It is a short, autobiographical tale of Kerouac s trip to Paris, then Brittany, to research his genealogy Kerouac relates his trip in a tumbledown fashion as a lonesome traveler. Satori In Paris by Jack Kerouac A Satori in Paris is of no exception In it Kerouac forty something, drunk, lost, on the fringes of health and a career has gone to France to discover the origins of his family Anything I read of Ker