{"product_id":"9781598534986","title":"The Unknown Kerouac (Loa #283): Rare, Unpublished \u0026 Newly Translated Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a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 This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as never before the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success—a journey with deep roots in the language and culture of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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited and published with unprecedented access to the Kerouac archives, \u003cb\u003eThe Unknown Kerouac\u003c\/b\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049712828656,"sku":"9781598534986","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598534986_p0.jpg?v=1763811586","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598534986","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}