{"product_id":"the-unknown-kerouac-loa-283","title":"The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283) - Rare, Unpublished \u0026 Newly Translated Writings (Library of America Jack Kerouac Edition) (Book:4)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings shines new light on the \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e author\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003es life, from his French Canadian childhood to his \u003cb\u003emeteoric rise to literary fame\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Edited and published with unprecedented access to the Kerouac archives, \u003ci\u003eThe Unknown Kerouac\u003c\/i\u003e presents two lost novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Is My Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOld Bull in the Bowery\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Also included are two journals from the heart of this same crucial period. In \u003ci\u003ePrivate Philologies, Riddles, and a Ten-Day Writing Log\u003c\/i\u003e, Kerouac recounts a brief stay in Denver—where he works on an early version of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, reads dime novels, and even rides in a rodeo—and shows him contemplating writers like Chaucer and Joyce and playing with riddles and etymologies. \u003ci\u003eJournal 1951\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This landmark volume is rounded out with the memoir \u003ci\u003eMemory Babe\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eBeat Spotlight\u003c\/i\u003e Kerouac reflects on his meteoric career and unlooked for celebrity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e 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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51306001334560,"sku":"9781598534986","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781598534986.jpg?v=1772767681","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/the-unknown-kerouac-loa-283","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}