The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283): Rare, Unpublished & Newly

The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283): Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings (Library of America Jack Kerouac Edition)

In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack KerouacÂ created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionaryÂ prose style. This remarkable gathering ofÂ previously unpublished writings reveals as neverÂ before the extraordinary literary journey that led to hisÂ phenomenal successâ€”a journey with deep roots inÂ the language and culture of Kerouacâ€™s French CanadianÂ childhood.

Edited and published with unprecedented access toÂ the Kerouac archives, The Unknown Kerouac presentsÂ two lost novels, The Night Is My Woman and Old BullÂ in the Bowery, which Kerouac wrote in French duringÂ the especially fruitful years of 1951 and 1952. DiscoveredÂ among his papers in the mid-nineties, they haveÂ been translated into English for the first time by Jean-Christophe Cloutier, who incorporates Kerouacâ€™sÂ own partial translations.

Also included are two journals from the heart of thisÂ same crucial period. In Private Philologies, Riddles,Â and a Ten-Day Writing Log, Kerouac recounts a briefÂ stay in Denverâ€”where he works on an early version ofÂ On the Road, reads dime novels, and even rides in aÂ rodeoâ€”and shows him contemplating writers likeÂ Chaucer and Joyce and playing with riddles andÂ etymologies. Journal 1951, begun during a stay in aÂ Bronx VA hospital, charts, in ecstatic, moving, andÂ self-revealing pages, the wave of insights and breakthroughsÂ that led Kerouac to the most singular transformationÂ of American prose style since Hemingway.

This landmark volume is rounded out with theÂ memoir Memory Babe, a poignant evocation of childhoodÂ play and reverie in a robust immigrant community,Â in which Kerouac uncannily retrieves and distillsÂ the subtlest sense impressions. And finally, in an interviewÂ with his longtime friend and fellow Beat JohnÂ Clellon Holmes and in the late fragment Beat SpotlightÂ Kerouac reflects on his meteoric career and unlookedÂ for celebrity.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-09-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598534986

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2016-09-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598534986

The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283): Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings (Library of America Jack Kerouac Edition)

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