The Herbert Huncke Reader

_________________ Herbert Huncke was the original Beat. A hustler, carny, addict, petty thief, street philosopher, and chronicler of the demimonde, he was the archetype on which a generation modeled itself. In the 1940s, Huncke befriended the young William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg, guiding them through New York''s underground and introducing them to a world of volatile experience they had never imagined. His extraordinary ability to relate his life story in pared-down, unaffected prose inspired them to create a new type of literature, free of constraint and self-consciousness. Huncke''s work is a vital part of Beat literature, but until now has remained relatively unknown. The Herbert Huncke Reader includes the full texts of Huncke''s long out-of-print classics, Huncke''s Journal and The Evening Sun Turned Crimson; excerpts from his autobiography, Guilty of Everything; and a wide selection from his unpublished letters and diaries. _________________

Product details

• Authors: William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, Huncke Herbert
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.1998
• EAN: 9780747540076
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-4007-6
• No. of pages: 389
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary essays, Diaries, letters and journals, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Autobiography: writers