An edition of Dr Sax (1959)

Dr Sax

  • 3.00 ·
  • 1 Rating
  • 4 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read
Dr Sax
Jack Kerouac
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 3.00 ·
  • 1 Rating
  • 4 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by IdentifierBot
August 17, 2010 | History
An edition of Dr Sax (1959)

Dr Sax

  • 3.00 ·
  • 1 Rating
  • 4 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

Doctor Sax (Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three) is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959. Kerouac wrote it in 1952 while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City.

The novel was written quickly in the improvisatory style Kerouac called “spontaneous prose.” In a letter to Allen Ginsberg dated May 18, 1952, Kerouac wrote, “I’ll simply blow [improvise like a jazz musician] on the vision of the Shadow in my 13th and 14th years on Sarah Ave. Lowell, culminated by the myth itself as I dreamt it in Fall 1948 . . . angles of my hoop-rolling boyhood as seen from the shroud.” In a letter to Ginsberg dated November 8 of the same year, Kerouac admits “Doctor Sax was written high on tea [marijuana] without pausing to think, sometimes Bill [Burroughs] would come in the room and so the chapter ended there, . . .” (ibid, p. 185).

Publish Date
Publisher
Ballantine

Buy this book

Previews available in: French English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Docteur Sax
Docteur Sax
June 23, 1994, Gallimard, Gallimard Education
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Doctor Sax
Doctor Sax: Faust part three
1987, Grove Press
in English - New Evergreen ed.
Cover of: Dr Sax
Dr Sax
1977, Ballantine
Hardcover

Add another edition?

Book Details


The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL10682818M
ISBN 10
0345271319
Library Thing
67899
Goodreads
156924

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
August 17, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
April 16, 2010 Edited by bgimpertBot Added goodreads ID.
October 16, 2009 Edited by WorkBot add edition to work page
April 30, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record.