An edition of Dr Sax (1959)

Doctor Sax

Faust part three

New Evergreen ed.
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An edition of Dr Sax (1959)

Doctor Sax

Faust part three

New Evergreen ed.
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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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Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Pages
245

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Doctor Sax: Faust part three
1987, Grove Press
in English - New Evergreen ed.

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New York

Edition Notes

"An Evergreen book"--Cover p. 4.

Other Titles
Dr. Sax.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3521.E735 D63 1987, PS3521.E735D63 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
245 p. ;
Number of pages
245

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Open Library
OL2396176M
Internet Archive
doctorsaxfaustpa00kero
ISBN 10
0802130496
LCCN
87025915
Library Thing
67899
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311712

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