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The unknown Kerouac : rare, unpublished & newly translated writings / Todd Tietchen, editor ; Jean-Christophe Cloutier, translator.
LIBRA PS3521.E735 A6 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, author.
- Series:
- Library of America ; 283.
- The Library of America ; 283
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
- Kerouac, Jack.
- Authors, American--20th century.
- Authors, American.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 466 pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Half title: Jack Kerouac
- Rare, unpublished, & newly translated writings
- Rare, unpublished, and newly translated writings
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2016]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Presents a collection of never-before-published and newly translated writings by the legendary author and provides insight into his path to a wholly new style of storytelling.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-466).
- ISBN:
- 9781598534986
- 159853498X
- OCLC:
- 934195335
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