An edition of Dr Sax (1959)

Doctor Sax

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An edition of Dr Sax (1959)

Doctor Sax

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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).

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Penguin Classics

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Cover of: Doctor Sax
Doctor Sax
2012, Penguin Classics
paperback
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.

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PS3521.E735

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OL27595542M
ISBN 10
0141198249
ISBN 13
9780141198248
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0141198249

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