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The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings - The Library of America 283

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Informationen zum Autor Todd Tietchen, editor, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He edited Jack Kerouac’s The Haunted Life and Other Writings  (2014) and the Library of America volume Kerouac: Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur (2015). Jean-Christophe Cloutier, translator, is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He edited La vie est d’hommage  (2016), a comprehensive volume of Kerouac’s original French writings. Klappentext 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 This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as never before the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success-a journey with deep roots in the language and culture of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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. Zusammenfassung This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings shines new light on the On the Road author ’ s life, from his French Canadian childhood to his meteoric rise to literary fame 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 ...

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Authors Jean-Christophe Cloutier, Jack Kerouac, Todd Tietchen
Assisted by Todd Tietchen (Editor), Jean-Christophe Cloutier (Translation)
Publisher Library of America
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.02.2017
 
EAN 9781598534986
ISBN 978-1-59853-498-6
Dimensions 135 mm x 206 mm x 25 mm
Series The Library of America
Library of America
Library of America Jack Kerouac Edition
Library of America Jack Keroua
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies

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