- Beat Generation, Fiction, Fiction in English, Beats (Persons)
The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. It is a semi-fictional account of his short romance with an African American woman named Alene Lee (1931-1991) in New York in 1953.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Granada Publishing, Limited, Logoreci, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- Polish, English, Spanish, alb
- ISBN
- 9780450017339
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“ONCE I WAS YOUNG and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac, naturally, facetious won't do-just to start at the beginning and let the truth seep out, that's what I'll do-.”
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
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