Tristessa
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What this title is working with
- Dangerous love
- Working-class lives
- Melancholy
- Gritty
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- Release
- 1960
Synopsis
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 title character). The woman's real name was Esperanza ("hope" in Spanish); Kerouac changed her name to Tristessa ("tristeza" means sadness in Spanish and Portuguese).
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