Format:
xxxiv, 466 Seiten
,
20 cm
ISBN:
9781598534986
Series Statement:
The library of America 283
Content:
On Frank Sinatra -- America in world history -- A couple of facts concerning laws of decadence -- On contemporary jazz,"Bebop" -- Private philologies, riddles, and a ten-day writing log -- The night is my woman [La nuit est ma femme] -- Journal 1951 -- Old Bull in the Bowery [Sur le chemin] -- Tics -- Memory babe -- Doing literary work : an interview with Jack Kerouac -- Beat spotlight -- Appendix: I wish I were you
Content:
In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as never before the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success—a journey with deep roots in the language and culture of Kerouac’s French Canadian childhood. Edited and published with unprecedented access to the Kerouac archives, The Unknown Kerouac presents two lost novels, The Night Is My Woman and Old Bull in the Bowery, which Kerouac wrote in French during the especially fruitful years of 1951 and 1952. Discovered among his papers in the mid-nineties, they have been translated into English for the first time by Jean-Christophe Cloutier, who incorporates Kerouac’s own partial translations. Also included are two journals from the heart of this same crucial period. In Private Philologies, Riddles, and a Ten-Day Writing Log, Kerouac recounts a brief stay in Denver—where he works on an early version of On the Road, reads dime novels, and even rides in a rodeo—and shows him contemplating writers like Chaucer and Joyce and playing with riddles and etymologies. Journal 1951, begun during a stay in a Bronx VA hospital, charts, in ecstatic, moving, and self-revealing pages, the wave of insights and breakthroughs that led Kerouac to the most singular transformation of American prose style since Hemingway. This landmark volume is rounded out with the memoir Memory Babe, a poignant evocation of childhood play and reverie in a robust immigrant community, in which Kerouac uncannily retrieves and distills the subtlest sense impressions. And finally, in an interview with his longtime friend and fellow Beat John Clellon Holmes and in the late fragment Beat Spotlight Kerouac reflects on his meteoric career and unlooked for celebrity.
Note:
Teilweise aus dem Französischen übersetzt
,
The night is my woman
,
Old bull in the bowery
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969
;
Anthologie
Author information:
Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969
