@sfchris It's even worst for those of us listening to the interview, as Kerouac is going all over the map! The "interviewer" is trying to keep the interview going in one direction. I guess that's what happens when the interviewee is an alcoholic & has a diagnosis of "schizoid personality".
If you love Kerouac like I do, check out my new book Road Trippn' (by Sean McLaughlin), a tribute to Jack; youth; Freedom; Love; God; sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and America set across the country and culminating in the streets of NYC, a month prior to the attacks of 9/11. Check it out at Amazon.com and support another working class artist from one of America's other former industrial glory towns - Cleveland this carnation around instead of Lowell.
@masterchiefer123 But people whose parents came from Italy consider themselves Italian American, people from Poland call themselves Polish American, etc. Would you say to Robert DeNiro that he's not Italian American?
Quebecois are *very* proud of their culture, which is *not* the same as French culture or Anglo Canadian culture, and is definitely distinct from American culture.
no shit hes french canadian you fucking jackass. was he born in canada? NOOOO he was born IN LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS is that CANADA? no its not its america, go do your research, actually his roots were from france you fuck no quebec if you want to get into semantics like a dumbshit. my roots are from england, does that mean i consider myself english no im american.
@masterchiefer123 He *called* himself Franch-Canadian, schmuck. His family was in Quebec for almost 150 years before he was born. Hence French-Canadian. And you don't stop being French-Canadian if your parents move to America.
Mon maitre à penser, à vivre et à écrire pendant des années. Mais je pense, en voyant son look à ce qu'il disait des jeunes admirateurs qui le découvraient un jour de visu et ne pouvaient cacher leur déception, tant le décalage était grand par rapport à l'image qu'ils se faisaient du beatnick idéal. Moi, français, qui connait beaucoup de québecois, je le trouve malgré tout tres québecois, avec son comportement et son langage tres affirmés et hauts en couleur.
when was this interview done? so cool and insightful. I like how the interviewer says that when jack is 45.... well he only lived two more yrs after 45. also, what poignant ending , where jack says that 'he is tired of himself'. He had a thick middle age middle, too.
Il parle franchement mieux français que bien des québécois aujourd'hui! il n'y a presque pas d'anglicismes dans ce qu'il dit! Demandez à quelqu'un du même âge et de la même provenance aujourd'hui de parler aussi clairement, et vous serez déçu!
For those who wonder, he speaks really fluently in québécois french! Better than some quebecers nowadays! Thanks for posting this! And the translation isn't bad either!
its not that he speaks the french from france poorly, its that he speaks a french-canadian dialect called "joual". the way he said "canoe" cracked me up- my husbands whole family who are quebecois but have been living in somersworth, new hampshire for generations still talk like that.
Funny to see how everybody is trying to make Kerouac its own... How about saying that he is a Lowell-raised French Canadian of Breton Origin and everybody will be happy... ;-)
Anyway, great documentary. Ca fat plaisir de voir Kerouac parler en Francais.
The sad thing about Kerouac is he adopted many of the bigoted views of his mother Gabrielle (which she got from the Catholic Chuch - ie regarding Jews).
No it's not classic quebecois language, it sounds more like an irish from quebec speaking french.... wich makes him a quebecois....! I know about that cause i am french quebecois and I 've been living in Montreal since I was born 64 years ago....!
@wohs145 The nasal vowels are slightly more opened (actually, each vowel has its own nasal sound, like "un" and "in", "en" and "an" sound different, whereas "standard" french only has three nasal sounds). The general intonation is also different. Plus of course a lot of local expressions, much like the difference between British and US english.
he sounds so cultured in english et en francais on le mangerait il parle comme un petit garcon so sweet arguably the best writer of the 20th century c'est dommage qu'il n'ait pas ecrit beaucoup en francais c'aurait ete chouette
RSPKT to the master of the typewriter like a machine gun thru the american night
Most writers had inspiration on various common lifre figures. We cannot judge them by they way they speak or the background they had ! These video is a important historical register of art, poetry, personas and personages. The myth of youth, nowadays, through the cinema, brought by figures like James Dean, always will live in the human set of archetypes.
wtf MrDomo66 !? I heard from a good source that he went on St-Laurent to drink with Denis Vanier in a dark jazz club. And what are you saying about students from UQAM ? ha, anyway. have a good day gagne de pixels.
In back ground you can hear stupid students from Uqam laughing of is slang, He left Montreal very angry and never came back and he never tried to get in touch with Quebec Artist. Uqam accepts just ass holes in their University
I wonder if the Joan of Arc church he mentioed was the one in Long Island from '27-'64. It was supposedly the chapel where Joan of Arc first started hearing voices. After '64 it was moved to the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee. Out front of it they have a water chalice/grail from the 14th century--the time when Perceval was actually being written, and some stone work on the alter inside is identical to some Taoist designs from ancient China that I've seen.
Buzzing street lights in 65, while riding down broadway, I saw him raise a fist and knock on air, giving honorary mention, on a sidewalk, with licorice aromatics and things to come; a riot in mind and lost roads yet to try; I was driving down the hours, until the great eruption, the beautiful hydrogen plume, that turned my earliest stages to glass; of misunderstanding.
Apart from HydroQuebec and Men without Hats...Kerouac is Quebecs greatest contribution to Western Civilization. Period. Take that to the bank calisse d´mere!!!!
Je l'ai encore regardée. Cette entrevue est un vrai plaisir à regarder mais surtout à écouter. Un vrai témoignage d'un patrimoine canadien français qui a plus ou moins disparu, tout au moins en nouvelle angleterre. si vous allez à lowell ou à manchester, vous verrez de quoi j'parle.
Yes, thanks for confirming that, rincevent. I thought it was. I've been bilingual all my life, but mine is 'French' French, so I have trouble at times catching all the Quebecois nuances. I know it's nit-picky, but i just wondered why he transposed the 'g' and 'n' in both languages. I've also read recently that Kerouac's Quebecois was, in itself, very vernacular and unusual, even for Quebecois speakers...but he did write in that style at times.
Kerouac was raised in a context in which USA was in the process of standardising on English as the common language for everybody. This meant that education in French, Dutch, German or whatever else, was getting quite thin. As a result, the several hundred thousand Quebecois who moved from QC to MA around the time of the 1890's depression eventually just stirred themselves in the melting pot and left French aside.
Superbe interwiew d'un esprit novateur et qui marque encore tellement de générations... J'en profite pour saluer nos Frères Franco-Canadiens. Vous êtes de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique mais on vous adore, vous serez toujours bien reçu chez vous, en France :)
Merci l'ami (ou l'amie), ton commentaire m'a fait un bien immense, expliquer pourquoi serait vraiment trop long. Alors, salut frère d'outre-Atlantique! Jack, il me fait mal tellement penser aux oncles qui sont partis aux États, les nouveaux corsaires du transistor, On the road again, ti-Louis!
He sounds just like my parents/grandparents do when they speak french, when they say english words they sound almost American, but they have a very French-Canadian accent when speaking it otherwise. I've been taking french for six years and I never want to stop improving it, because I'm proud of my heritage as a French-Canadian.
@moviefreak91 My brother has in-laws who are francophone but from Manitoba. Whenever they go to Quebec, people are amazed that they speak French so fluently but without a Quebecois accent!
im sorry this is so scarey, TEN YEARS AGO A GIRL WAS WALKING HOME FROM A BASEBALL GAME AND WAS IN A FIGHT WITH HER BOYFREIND WHEN SHE WAS CLOSE TO HER HOUSE HER DREAM WAS THAT HER BOYFREIND DIED AND THE NEXT MORNING HE DID. THE NEXT NIGHT SHE HAD A DREAM THAT SHE DIED THE NEXT EVENING SHE GOT RAN OVER BY A CAR, IF U DONT POST THIS TO 5 VIDEOS IN THE NEXT HOUR SHE WILL COME AND KILL U AT NIGHT, good luck!
Kerouac était le moin racist de tout les beatniks.Mes grands-parents parlaient de la meme façon mais jamais avec l'arriere pensée que les noirs soit de moindres humains.Mon grand-pere est venu au monde en 1912 St-Louis minnesota d'une famille d'origine canadienne francaise. Toujours il m'a dit que les nègres était des êtres humain comme tout les autres ..Avec les même droit. je comprend que le mot 'negre' présentement choque les gens. mais ce n'était pas du racisme...
définitivement, la manière dont on se choque des mots aujourd'hui, et qu'on tente de les censurer, est une grande distraction qui empêche de gérer le problème que ça couvre. il y a bien des vertus thérapeutiques à changer de mots, mais ça peut pas être sain de ne s'en tenir qu'à ça et de faire des chasses aux sorcières sur les mots.
j'ai toujours peur qu'on oublie des pans de l'histoire juste parce qu'on veut pas entendre certains mots.
Did you know that the French-canadians used to call themselves "nègre-blanc d'Amérique" which means white-negro. Because there was some similarities the way one coped with them. They were second-class citizens. Of course one cannot compare the way Afro-American suffered from discrimination.
It is Pierre Vallières who wrote the book named «Nègres Blancs d'Amérique» and afaik he coined the term; however he was not the first one to make the comparison.
About «of course one cannot compare», well, if you mean outright slavery, you're very right, but imho that's beside the point, because the whole white-negro concept was a comparison to 20th century blacks, including the British-African colonies (Laurendeau alluded to them in an influential editorial in 1958).
Et oui, c'est Pierre Vallières et le peuple a repris l'expression puisqu'elle semblait lui aller comme un gant et c'était surtout une belle façon imagée de décrire leur situation d'infériorisation systématique. Pour le reste que l'on fasse référence à l'esclavage - ce que je n'ai pas fait - ou à la lutte pour les droits civiques dans la deuxième moitié du siècle dernier, il n'y a aucun amalgame possible entre les deux groupes.
je sais que vous n'avez pas fait référence à l'esclavage, mais j'essayais de deviner pourquoi on pouvait dire que ça se comparait pas. à ce que je sache, les francos ont jamais eu de problème à embarquer dans un tram, mais il reste qu'on peut se demander pourquoi la question de la charte des droits a semblé si importante pour Lesage, et pourquoi le Québec avait tant besoin de fonder des banques spécialement pour les francos... et d'autres questions.
ah, et deuxième réponse, le parallèle fait avec les colonies africaines est expliqué dans l'article «Maurice Duplessis à l'Assemblée nationale: la théorie du roi nègre», paru dans le Devoir du 4 juillet 1958. encore là, la ressemblance dépend beaucoup de si on regarde plus la mentalité, ou plus l'intensité des actes...
pour moi, tant qu'on tire une bonne leçon d'une comparaison, la comparaison a raison d'être.
Ironiquement, il y a deux semaines, le poème "Speak White" a été lu devant un grand public par une personne de race noire. La boucle est bouclée. C'est plutôt symbolique et anecdotique, mais en même temps, c'était dur de l'imaginer avant que ça arrive. Je ne pense pas non plus que la lectrice était la seule personne noire à vouloir appuyer ce rapprochement.
La réflexion que cela m'apporte c'est que face à l'impérialisme opresseur, nous ne sommes ni noir ni blanc mais simplement des hommes qui devraient être solidaires. Ce qui malheureusement n,est pas souvent le cas. Au Québec, il y . a eut quand même une solidarité d'intention. On n,a qu'à songer à Jacky Robinson et certain jazzmans tel Charles Biddle qui ont trouvé ici un certain accueil favorable bien avant l'émancipation des noirs aux USA.
ça fait longtemps que les empires jouent sur le manque de solidarité; les Romains appelaient ça «diviser pour régner» et ça sert encore partout dans l'monde.
Je ne suis pas d'accord, c'est Fernand Séguin qui fait l'interview, un vulgarisateur, il n'essaie pas de la jouer intello. Il essaie de faire une entrevue sérieuse, mais il embarque et rigole avec Jack Kerouac, tout comme l'assistance. Jack Kerouac a vraiment l'air sympathique et ne se prend pas au sérieux.
this really made me smile, to know jack was here in quebec, probably montreal, two years before he died, and speaking the real quebecois french, WELL at that!
i was a bit stoned! but the point i was making, was; that "our generation" is the generation of media-manipulation! everything is spoon fed to us... that's what I meant "by design :)
stoned,eh? haha ok fair enough...but anyway i am with you.we are nothing but passive consumers nowadays.we are transformed into one single life circle work>produce>consume.we dont even think or question, we just accept.and media is the best tool for manipulation, i cant imagine any other way to control masses without even giving a way for them to realize that they are being manipulated! so freaking smart, and hence dangerous! we gotta wake up and thats what the beat was also trying to tell!
read his opinion on writing/writers (born or made): each author writes only what he could write & should write. every life ends, so there's no sense in woulda shoulda coulda.
I hope the On The Road movie will be good.
amazingdany 2 weeks ago
Genius.
crankylifter 1 month ago
ouais cool jack kerouac origine quebecois ......
alveslgc 2 months ago
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PlayIt4MeAgainSam 3 months ago
maybe he was just human. that's all.
Horks 3 months ago
I didn't know Jack Kerouac spoke french. cool stuff.
Levipaulsen 4 months ago
Kerouac's my hero. Did my English dissertation on "Town and the City".
shmiggen 4 months ago
My word what an awful interviewer... won't let Jack complete any sentences. How frustrating!
sfchris 5 months ago
@sfchris It's even worst for those of us listening to the interview, as Kerouac is going all over the map! The "interviewer" is trying to keep the interview going in one direction. I guess that's what happens when the interviewee is an alcoholic & has a diagnosis of "schizoid personality".
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Oscar Peterson, "The Safety Dance" , Leonard Cohen and Kerouac...Quebec´s greatest contributions to Western fu%$in Civilization.
RideMyBMW 6 months ago
Thanks for the English subtitles! Very much appreciated.
rsohlich1 7 months ago
Nice, Donna Lee at the end.
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If you love Kerouac like I do, check out my new book Road Trippn' (by Sean McLaughlin), a tribute to Jack; youth; Freedom; Love; God; sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and America set across the country and culminating in the streets of NYC, a month prior to the attacks of 9/11. Check it out at Amazon.com and support another working class artist from one of America's other former industrial glory towns - Cleveland this carnation around instead of Lowell.
- John McParadise
johnmcparadisio 9 months ago
Kerouac. A good Catholic.
JimmyFranceable 9 months ago
@JimmyFranceable
wtf does that have to do with anything. religious is false go get educateed
masterchiefer123 7 months ago
@masterchiefer123 To you, maybe.
ItchythaWookiee 7 months ago
Man it s not canadian TV it's SWISS tv (TSR)...
KowloonKrew 9 months ago
@KowloonKrew The broadcast is from Radio-Canada, the french-speaking CBC. The logo at the bottom right is still the same today.
mrthebunny 8 months ago
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RideMyBMW 10 months ago
@RideMyBMW
quebec? he was american....u turd
masterchiefer123 7 months ago
@masterchiefer123 "quebec? he was american....u turd"
hey jackass, big Kero was as much a Quebecois as he was American...
RideMyBMW 7 months ago 2
@masterchiefer123 His family came from Quebec. His first language was French.
ItchythaWookiee 7 months ago 2
@ItchythaWookiee
his family came from quebec...from france....my family came from england, i dont consider myself english do i?
masterchiefer123 6 months ago
@masterchiefer123 But people whose parents came from Italy consider themselves Italian American, people from Poland call themselves Polish American, etc. Would you say to Robert DeNiro that he's not Italian American?
Quebecois are *very* proud of their culture, which is *not* the same as French culture or Anglo Canadian culture, and is definitely distinct from American culture.
ItchythaWookiee 6 months ago
@masterchiefer123 lol, do your research, you turd. He's a French-Canadian.
janxtasaurus 6 months ago
@janxtasaurus
no shit hes french canadian you fucking jackass. was he born in canada? NOOOO he was born IN LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS is that CANADA? no its not its america, go do your research, actually his roots were from france you fuck no quebec if you want to get into semantics like a dumbshit. my roots are from england, does that mean i consider myself english no im american.
masterchiefer123 6 months ago
@masterchiefer123 He *called* himself Franch-Canadian, schmuck. His family was in Quebec for almost 150 years before he was born. Hence French-Canadian. And you don't stop being French-Canadian if your parents move to America.
ItchythaWookiee 6 months ago
Thx for posting this. What i like the most from this interview is that you can see that he is happy to be there.
MrBlueBlazzer 11 months ago 2
Mon maitre à penser, à vivre et à écrire pendant des années. Mais je pense, en voyant son look à ce qu'il disait des jeunes admirateurs qui le découvraient un jour de visu et ne pouvaient cacher leur déception, tant le décalage était grand par rapport à l'image qu'ils se faisaient du beatnick idéal. Moi, français, qui connait beaucoup de québecois, je le trouve malgré tout tres québecois, avec son comportement et son langage tres affirmés et hauts en couleur.
agnldp 11 months ago 2
when was this interview done? so cool and insightful. I like how the interviewer says that when jack is 45.... well he only lived two more yrs after 45. also, what poignant ending , where jack says that 'he is tired of himself'. He had a thick middle age middle, too.
idic5 1 year ago
Il parle franchement mieux français que bien des québécois aujourd'hui! il n'y a presque pas d'anglicismes dans ce qu'il dit! Demandez à quelqu'un du même âge et de la même provenance aujourd'hui de parler aussi clairement, et vous serez déçu!
For those who wonder, he speaks really fluently in québécois french! Better than some quebecers nowadays! Thanks for posting this! And the translation isn't bad either!
pamelamathilde 1 year ago
Cara, muito foda esse entrevista! =D
Dude, this interview is fucking awesome! =D
donangelus 1 year ago
funny to see how everybody talks about his accent im a language fetichist too but not with him
truelovewayy 1 year ago
i dont speak french, i wonder how fluent jack is. someone tell me?
explodingromancandle 1 year ago
@explodingromancandle Pretty fluent but he still struggle on some words. He is speaking like my grand father used to :)
madkrull 1 year ago
its not that he speaks the french from france poorly, its that he speaks a french-canadian dialect called "joual". the way he said "canoe" cracked me up- my husbands whole family who are quebecois but have been living in somersworth, new hampshire for generations still talk like that.
amandakatedonovan 1 year ago
what a funny guy, could this be a stunt double .
"The devil who becomes a hermit?, the interviewer is a tetch strange
gblatt 1 year ago
Funny to see how everybody is trying to make Kerouac its own... How about saying that he is a Lowell-raised French Canadian of Breton Origin and everybody will be happy... ;-)
Anyway, great documentary. Ca fat plaisir de voir Kerouac parler en Francais.
massiou 1 year ago 8
So funny. He doesn't speak french that well, nevertheless he spoke french as his first language until he was six, when he learned the english.
morrissey02 1 year ago
The sad thing about Kerouac is he adopted many of the bigoted views of his mother Gabrielle (which she got from the Catholic Chuch - ie regarding Jews).
jonvil2009 1 year ago
No it's not classic quebecois language, it sounds more like an irish from quebec speaking french.... wich makes him a quebecois....! I know about that cause i am french quebecois and I 've been living in Montreal since I was born 64 years ago....!
alzhammer1 1 year ago 9
@alzhammer1 en fait, il parle le joual :P
mpg895 2 weeks ago
This remind me of seeing minor league hockey games.
mrpopenfresh 1 year ago
Je vous remercie beaucoup tragiedia.
PlayIt4MeAgainSam 1 year ago
OMG I didn't know Kerouac could speak québecois! Nice! Feels good to be French-Canadian!
sweetaliena 1 year ago
Is the Quebec accent much much different from French accent?
wohs145 1 year ago
@wohs145 Yes it is. This interview is purely Quebec accent, more a working-class Montrealer accent.
sweetaliena 1 year ago 2
@wohs145 The nasal vowels are slightly more opened (actually, each vowel has its own nasal sound, like "un" and "in", "en" and "an" sound different, whereas "standard" french only has three nasal sounds). The general intonation is also different. Plus of course a lot of local expressions, much like the difference between British and US english.
yunkah95 1 year ago 3
You idiot his accent is 100% quebecois, not americain lol je parle francais, la version quebecoise je sais
crepplin169 1 year ago
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shantiq 1 year ago
ca c'est un bel accent quebekwa
he sounds so cultured in english et en francais on le mangerait il parle comme un petit garcon so sweet arguably the best writer of the 20th century c'est dommage qu'il n'ait pas ecrit beaucoup en francais c'aurait ete chouette
RSPKT to the master of the typewriter like a machine gun thru the american night
shantiq 1 year ago
who ever posted this thanks a bunch
YANETTE420 1 year ago
HydroQuebec, "Safety Dance" and Jack Kerouac...Quebec's greatest contributions to Western Civilization.
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
@RideMyBMW Well, there's also Leonard Cohen, Mordecai Richler, Oscar Peterson, William Shatner...
ItchythaWookiee 6 months ago
Je pense qu'il veut dire dénigrer (dire du mal) et non pas dégriner
314marianne 1 year ago
Most writers had inspiration on various common lifre figures. We cannot judge them by they way they speak or the background they had ! These video is a important historical register of art, poetry, personas and personages. The myth of youth, nowadays, through the cinema, brought by figures like James Dean, always will live in the human set of archetypes.
TubeSpoker 1 year ago
Le mot prétendument "inaudible" à 2.01 est "vietnik".
hagst27 1 year ago
wtf MrDomo66 !? I heard from a good source that he went on St-Laurent to drink with Denis Vanier in a dark jazz club. And what are you saying about students from UQAM ? ha, anyway. have a good day gagne de pixels.
seaccentaigu 1 year ago
What a find! Thanks for posting!
MEpianist 1 year ago
In back ground you can hear stupid students from Uqam laughing of is slang, He left Montreal very angry and never came back and he never tried to get in touch with Quebec Artist. Uqam accepts just ass holes in their University
MrDomo66 1 year ago
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RideMyBMW 1 year ago
@MrDomo66
pas vraiment. C'est fou ce que les anglos peuvent inventer pour cracher sur le Québec...
verbod 1 year ago
@MrDomo66 : he died only 6 months after UQÀM was founded. are you serious about this ? where did you get that info from ?
matju2 1 year ago
"back ground you can hear stupid students from Uqam laughing of is slang" - MrDomo66
Putain d' maire les UQAM snobs la....Tabernak X(
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
Wow ! I'm thrilled to listen to Kerouac in french with his so nice little accent. It sounds so cooooool ! Thx very much for posting !
h0ll0h 1 year ago
He sounds much more relaxed in French.
wookie72 1 year ago
i figured as much that listening to a french interview might help me learn the language.
Chloetyne22 1 year ago
kerouac love ye brother!
paulieh24 1 year ago
Who is the interviewing in the video?
Aflaman921 2 years ago
Fernand Séguin is the interviewer.
MGMmusical 1 year ago
I wonder if the Joan of Arc church he mentioed was the one in Long Island from '27-'64. It was supposedly the chapel where Joan of Arc first started hearing voices. After '64 it was moved to the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee. Out front of it they have a water chalice/grail from the 14th century--the time when Perceval was actually being written, and some stone work on the alter inside is identical to some Taoist designs from ancient China that I've seen.
grindlesgrindis 2 years ago
I walked by it thousands of times on the way to class. It would be astounding if that's where he figured out the meaning of "Beat".
grindlesgrindis 2 years ago
Isn't Joan of Arc french?
bahramf 1 year ago
Oui , à peu près. Ell était Lorraine.
ifermon2 1 year ago
Why did he say negro ?
BioRockLennon 2 years ago
because it was a different time. This was not a racist comment, only a descriptive one.
bellablue108 2 years ago 3
You god-damn politically correct dick-hole.
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Buzzing street lights in 65, while riding down broadway, I saw him raise a fist and knock on air, giving honorary mention, on a sidewalk, with licorice aromatics and things to come; a riot in mind and lost roads yet to try; I was driving down the hours, until the great eruption, the beautiful hydrogen plume, that turned my earliest stages to glass; of misunderstanding.
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MrFartmonkey 2 years ago
when was this filmed
brosketty01 2 years ago
1967
BioRockLennon 2 years ago
@csgeorgemanhl - Because it is funny! :-)
scholesey123 2 years ago
jesus why are they laughing at his answers
csgeorgemanhl 2 years ago
Apart from HydroQuebec and Men without Hats...Kerouac is Quebecs greatest contribution to Western Civilization. Period. Take that to the bank calisse d´mere!!!!
RideMyBMW 2 years ago
@RideMyBMW What about The Hockey Sweater?
wookie72 1 year ago
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"@RideMyBMW What about The Hockey Sweater? " - wookie
That too Wook, that too. :)
Allez Quebec putain d'mere!!!
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
@RideMyBMW I think you forgot Oscar Peterson...
vpmitchell 10 months ago
im glad they put subtitles to this
josephcrumbley 2 years ago 2
J'adore comme il parle
gipcambero 2 years ago
ah oui, je m'adressais en particulier à rincevent84!;
lepassantjeudi 2 years ago
wow. i learned a little something and i've never heard j k speak. nice. B\
RichardBLongly 2 years ago
Je l'ai encore regardée. Cette entrevue est un vrai plaisir à regarder mais surtout à écouter. Un vrai témoignage d'un patrimoine canadien français qui a plus ou moins disparu, tout au moins en nouvelle angleterre. si vous allez à lowell ou à manchester, vous verrez de quoi j'parle.
ambioz 2 years ago 4
hes actually some arrogent prick (sorry bout the basic language...)
timmy317317 2 years ago
Degrinateur?
Degrinating?
Nonsensical in both languages. Does he mean 'denigrating'?
meredumais 2 years ago
The nice French word is "Dénigrer".
rincevent84 2 years ago
Yes, thanks for confirming that, rincevent. I thought it was. I've been bilingual all my life, but mine is 'French' French, so I have trouble at times catching all the Quebecois nuances. I know it's nit-picky, but i just wondered why he transposed the 'g' and 'n' in both languages. I've also read recently that Kerouac's Quebecois was, in itself, very vernacular and unusual, even for Quebecois speakers...but he did write in that style at times.
meredumais 2 years ago 2
Kerouac was raised in a context in which USA was in the process of standardising on English as the common language for everybody. This meant that education in French, Dutch, German or whatever else, was getting quite thin. As a result, the several hundred thousand Quebecois who moved from QC to MA around the time of the 1890's depression eventually just stirred themselves in the melting pot and left French aside.
matju2 2 years ago
Avant de l'enterrement de sa traductrice italienne
un dernier gros MERCI à FERNANDA PIVANO...
Meme si t'avais 92ans t'étais tjrs
un petite jeune soeure avec
le sourire d'un jeune fille de 20ans!
L' I T A L I E E N T I E RE T E R E M E R C I E
FilAgoStoFestival 2 years ago 5
Superbe interwiew d'un esprit novateur et qui marque encore tellement de générations... J'en profite pour saluer nos Frères Franco-Canadiens. Vous êtes de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique mais on vous adore, vous serez toujours bien reçu chez vous, en France :)
rincevent84 2 years ago 21
Merci l'ami (ou l'amie), ton commentaire m'a fait un bien immense, expliquer pourquoi serait vraiment trop long. Alors, salut frère d'outre-Atlantique! Jack, il me fait mal tellement penser aux oncles qui sont partis aux États, les nouveaux corsaires du transistor, On the road again, ti-Louis!
lepassantjeudi 2 years ago
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RideMyBMW 1 year ago
He sounds just like my parents/grandparents do when they speak french, when they say english words they sound almost American, but they have a very French-Canadian accent when speaking it otherwise. I've been taking french for six years and I never want to stop improving it, because I'm proud of my heritage as a French-Canadian.
moviefreak91 2 years ago 34
@moviefreak91 haha im the same.
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@moviefreak91 where your parents from?
dingdongpingpong69 9 months ago
@moviefreak91 My brother has in-laws who are francophone but from Manitoba. Whenever they go to Quebec, people are amazed that they speak French so fluently but without a Quebecois accent!
ItchythaWookiee 6 months ago
Kerouac was French Canadien.
wovokanarchy 2 years ago 4
uh..."IndependEnt"
torgman 2 years ago
he seemed pissed at the interviewer...
ittiebittie81 2 years ago
They're actually having fun together, it's just that Kerouac puts a lot of intensity in the way he talks
MisterPow13 2 years ago
Great post - thanks so much!!
MattyJames25 2 years ago
many thanks for the subs
dirtycelinefrenchman 2 years ago
Superbe entrevue.
punk2116 2 years ago
Quand même! y'était dans famille de ti-poil!
renaud9449 2 years ago
been there done that, got the t-shirt. though Read the book
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SelenaBuds 2 years ago
Regardez le min. 4:20
"Qu-est ce que Jack Kerouac pense de Jean Kerouac"
LOL!!! Regardez sa face! Il a pensé que le journaliste pose le questionne a cause de sa fille "Jan Kerouac" (pas reconnu legalment pour Jack)!!!!
"Ca vais dire ca?"
Regardez son expression!!!! LOL!!!!
RideMyBMW 3 years ago
il dit "qu'est-ce ça veut dire, ça?"
mais "qu'est-ce" est prononcé presque "queuce"
matju2 2 years ago
"old working class québécois accent" - mix
Fu%$in beautiful. Quebec saw Canada in, we`ll see her out.
RideMyBMW 3 years ago
Woderful Thanks!
6749er 3 years ago
il dit "des vieux negres"... et ça me choc !
kerouac is racist
lysablue 3 years ago
"il dit "des vieux negres"... et ça me choc !
kerouac is racist " - lys
Vive la difference mon petit.
RideMyBMW 3 years ago
"Vive la difference mon petit."
propos sybillins
???
lysablue 3 years ago
A propos "des vieux negres"
RideMyBMW 3 years ago
Kerouac était le moin racist de tout les beatniks.Mes grands-parents parlaient de la meme façon mais jamais avec l'arriere pensée que les noirs soit de moindres humains.Mon grand-pere est venu au monde en 1912 St-Louis minnesota d'une famille d'origine canadienne francaise. Toujours il m'a dit que les nègres était des êtres humain comme tout les autres ..Avec les même droit. je comprend que le mot 'negre' présentement choque les gens. mais ce n'était pas du racisme...
madkrull 3 years ago 5
définitivement, la manière dont on se choque des mots aujourd'hui, et qu'on tente de les censurer, est une grande distraction qui empêche de gérer le problème que ça couvre. il y a bien des vertus thérapeutiques à changer de mots, mais ça peut pas être sain de ne s'en tenir qu'à ça et de faire des chasses aux sorcières sur les mots.
j'ai toujours peur qu'on oublie des pans de l'histoire juste parce qu'on veut pas entendre certains mots.
matju2 2 years ago
Dans la langue des Canadiens-français de l'époque le mot nègre n'avait pas de conotation raciste.
musael22 2 years ago 4
hmm i think i would translate your comment like..
"in the language of canadian-french at the time... the term negro used to not have a racist connotation."
lol im practicing my french =D
gojunhogo5 2 years ago
You're right for the translation.
Did you know that the French-canadians used to call themselves "nègre-blanc d'Amérique" which means white-negro. Because there was some similarities the way one coped with them. They were second-class citizens. Of course one cannot compare the way Afro-American suffered from discrimination.
I wish you success learning French.
musael22 2 years ago 3
It is Pierre Vallières who wrote the book named «Nègres Blancs d'Amérique» and afaik he coined the term; however he was not the first one to make the comparison.
About «of course one cannot compare», well, if you mean outright slavery, you're very right, but imho that's beside the point, because the whole white-negro concept was a comparison to 20th century blacks, including the British-African colonies (Laurendeau alluded to them in an influential editorial in 1958).
matju2 2 years ago
Et oui, c'est Pierre Vallières et le peuple a repris l'expression puisqu'elle semblait lui aller comme un gant et c'était surtout une belle façon imagée de décrire leur situation d'infériorisation systématique. Pour le reste que l'on fasse référence à l'esclavage - ce que je n'ai pas fait - ou à la lutte pour les droits civiques dans la deuxième moitié du siècle dernier, il n'y a aucun amalgame possible entre les deux groupes.
musael22 2 years ago
je sais que vous n'avez pas fait référence à l'esclavage, mais j'essayais de deviner pourquoi on pouvait dire que ça se comparait pas. à ce que je sache, les francos ont jamais eu de problème à embarquer dans un tram, mais il reste qu'on peut se demander pourquoi la question de la charte des droits a semblé si importante pour Lesage, et pourquoi le Québec avait tant besoin de fonder des banques spécialement pour les francos... et d'autres questions.
matju2 2 years ago
ah, et deuxième réponse, le parallèle fait avec les colonies africaines est expliqué dans l'article «Maurice Duplessis à l'Assemblée nationale: la théorie du roi nègre», paru dans le Devoir du 4 juillet 1958. encore là, la ressemblance dépend beaucoup de si on regarde plus la mentalité, ou plus l'intensité des actes...
pour moi, tant qu'on tire une bonne leçon d'une comparaison, la comparaison a raison d'être.
matju2 2 years ago
Ironiquement, il y a deux semaines, le poème "Speak White" a été lu devant un grand public par une personne de race noire. La boucle est bouclée. C'est plutôt symbolique et anecdotique, mais en même temps, c'était dur de l'imaginer avant que ça arrive. Je ne pense pas non plus que la lectrice était la seule personne noire à vouloir appuyer ce rapprochement.
matju2 2 years ago
La réflexion que cela m'apporte c'est que face à l'impérialisme opresseur, nous ne sommes ni noir ni blanc mais simplement des hommes qui devraient être solidaires. Ce qui malheureusement n,est pas souvent le cas. Au Québec, il y . a eut quand même une solidarité d'intention. On n,a qu'à songer à Jacky Robinson et certain jazzmans tel Charles Biddle qui ont trouvé ici un certain accueil favorable bien avant l'émancipation des noirs aux USA.
musael22 2 years ago
ça fait longtemps que les empires jouent sur le manque de solidarité; les Romains appelaient ça «diviser pour régner» et ça sert encore partout dans l'monde.
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logansGT 3 years ago
c'est nul j'ai rien compris!! c'est quoi ça!!
jjkarla2008 3 years ago
Si t'as rien compris, comment peux-tu trouver ca nul? C'est une entrevue de Jack Kerouac en francais.C'est tout.
madkrull 3 years ago
il possède une telle présence
bumper3000 3 years ago
even in french he sounds purely american.
phizzy56 3 years ago
you think so? his accent is pretty classic quebecois
tragiedia 3 years ago 16
really? i wouldn't know. he just sounds like i did back when i took french, which is pretty bad.
phizzy56 3 years ago
he sounds just like my grand-father, old working class québécois accent.
mixounette 3 years ago 4
Good interview, I love the Donna Lee at the end as well.
s'fait bon, Jack!
jojoghost59 3 years ago
This interviewer doesn't know any more than Steve Allen or Ben Hecht, but there's no sneer
in what he does. I agree about the Parker touch too.
whizbang47 3 years ago
there was a video of kerouac on william buckleys firing line from 1968 (about a year before he died) posted not too long ago but its gone now.
why?
im confused!
who would take it down!
yermanno13 3 years ago
Jack was poingant and sharp- funny- witty. A rare sober moment late in life for poor sad Ti Jean.
nukes27 3 years ago
Je ne suis pas d'accord, c'est Fernand Séguin qui fait l'interview, un vulgarisateur, il n'essaie pas de la jouer intello. Il essaie de faire une entrevue sérieuse, mais il embarque et rigole avec Jack Kerouac, tout comme l'assistance. Jack Kerouac a vraiment l'air sympathique et ne se prend pas au sérieux.
loositude 3 years ago 4
Oue! Le Kero est vraiment top!
RideMyBMW 3 years ago
"Jack Kerouac a vraiment l'air sympathique et ne se prend pas au sérieux." - loo
Mais sa marche, oui?
Initium0 3 years ago
this really made me smile, to know jack was here in quebec, probably montreal, two years before he died, and speaking the real quebecois french, WELL at that!
vdiggie 3 years ago 5
"to know jack was here in quebec, probably montreal, two years before he died" - vd
Mai oui! Alors Vive le Quebec "hivre"!!!
Kerouac : Le cadeau du Quebec au monde.
RideMyBMW 3 years ago 3
just love how the band starts playing charlie parker's 'donna lee' when the interview finishes. pretty much sums up the whole atmosphere
MyMelancholyDodo 3 years ago 2
Regardez le min. 4:20
"Qu-est ce que Jack Kerouac pense de Jean Kerouac"
LOL!!! Regardez sa face! Il a pensé que le journaliste pose le questionne a cause de sa fille "Jan Kerouac" (pas reconnu legalment pour Jack)!!!!
"Ca vais dire ca?"
Regardez son expression!!!! LOL!!!!
RideMyBMW 3 years ago
je pense ca aussi. "jean" kerouac ou "jan" kerouac.
pauvre Jack.
1970kyre 3 years ago
oui c'est exactement ça :)
reno59fr 3 years ago
Jack had been married a couple times actually and he had a daughter, Jan. People posting lies here should try reading.
Jack was married to Stella when he died.
CaptchaU 3 years ago
Mad.
stankmasher 3 years ago
Regardez le min. 4:20
"Qu-est ce que Jack Kerouac pense de Jean Kerouac"
LOL!!! Regardez sa face! Il a pensé que le journaliste pose le questionne a cause de sa fille "Jan Kerouac" (pas reconnu legalment pour Jack)!!!!
"Ca vais dire ca?"
Regardez son expression!!!! LOL!!!!
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
"(RideMyBMW)What kinda sick fuck are you??? I don't know if you're a child, or an ignorant sob?" - leanx
LOL!!!xD!!! That´s some funny sh%$ dudes!!!
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
but it's true! :)
maxlax2008 4 years ago
"but it's true! :)" - max
STFU Max!
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
He hated what he founded; so he dipped-himself-deep-in-booz... to scape the reality of change!
"I'm not a courageous man."
-JK.
nutri11 4 years ago
Where are the people like this these days? I shit on this generation we have now.
sickoflogin 4 years ago
i couldnt agree more! why cant we have stuff like that in our time? we are a lost generation!
suley5 4 years ago
by design!
this gen is lost by design! not choice! there choices 'are' by design!
they-have-more-power-then-you-can-think-about...
NuWhey1 4 years ago
by design? that sounds a bit too foucaltian... i sense an x-files nuance here :)
suley5 4 years ago
i was a bit stoned! but the point i was making, was; that "our generation" is the generation of media-manipulation! everything is spoon fed to us... that's what I meant "by design :)
NuWhey1 4 years ago
stoned,eh? haha ok fair enough...but anyway i am with you.we are nothing but passive consumers nowadays.we are transformed into one single life circle work>produce>consume.we dont even think or question, we just accept.and media is the best tool for manipulation, i cant imagine any other way to control masses without even giving a way for them to realize that they are being manipulated! so freaking smart, and hence dangerous! we gotta wake up and thats what the beat was also trying to tell!
suley5 4 years ago
"i couldnt agree more! why cant we have stuff like that in our time ?" - suley
Oh GTFOH !!! You´re telling me you´d rather trade your i-pod in for a record player ? you´re truly fu%&d dude!!!
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
I didn't know Jack spoke French, but I guess it makes sense being as he was of French family origin.
napalm70 4 years ago
his family's origins are French-Canadien.
priorzola 4 years ago
Dude´s a Quebecer, "Nordiques" fan.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
Read a book. French was his first language. Didn't learn english till he started school.
stljoie 4 years ago
double congrats; your logic is the logic of the natural reality
RudolfSchmidt 3 years ago
hé, trop chouette de voir ça, et de l'entendre. et super d'avoir sous titré
reno59fr 4 years ago
it doesn't matter what might have been, only what was -- he lived the only Life j.k. could have lived & wrote all he should have.
jksmadone 4 years ago
Wrote all he should have? Or wrote all he could have?
"I'm not a courageous man."
-Jack Kerouac
nutrilabs 4 years ago
read his opinion on writing/writers (born or made): each author writes only what he could write & should write. every life ends, so there's no sense in woulda shoulda coulda.
jksmadone 4 years ago