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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Campbell, James (1951-....)
Titre(s) : This is the Beat Generation [Texte imprimé] : New York-San Francisco-Paris / James Campbell
Publication : Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001
Description matérielle : xiii, 320 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note(s) : "First California paperback"--Title page verso. - Originally published: London : Secker 愊rburg, 1999. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-308) and index
Publisher's description: Beginning in New York in 1944, James Campbell finds the leading
members of what was to become the Beat Generation in the shadows of madness and criminality.
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs had each seen the insides of a
mental hospital and a prison by the age of thirty. A few months after they met, another
member of their circle committed a murder that involved Kerouac and Burroughs as material
witnesses. This book charts the transformation of these experiences into literature,
and a literary movement that spread across the globe. From "The First Cut-Up"--The
murder in New York in 1944--we end up in Paris in 1960 with William Burroughs at the
Beat Hotel, experimenting with the technique that made him notorious, what Campbell
calls "The Final Cut-Up." In between, we move to San Francisco, where Ginsberg gave
the first public reading of Howl. We discover Burroughs in Mexico City and Tangiers;
the French background to the Beats; the Buddhist influence on Kerouac, Gary Snyder,
and others; the "Muses" Herbert Huncke and Neal Cassady; the tortuous history of On
the Road; and the black ancestry of the white hipster
Sujet(s) : Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969)
Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)
Burroughs, William Seward (1914-1997)
Beat generation
Indice(s) Dewey :
810.900 54 (23e éd.) = Littérature américaine de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - 1945-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0520230337. - ISBN 9780520230330
EAN 9790520230339
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb451989567
Notice n° :
FRBNF45198956
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