An edition of Dr Sax (1959)

Doctor Sax

Faust part three

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An edition of Dr Sax (1959)

Doctor Sax

Faust part three

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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).

Publish Date
Publisher
Deutsch
Language
English
Pages
217

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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: Doctor Sax
Doctor Sax: Faust part three
1977, Deutsch
in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Grove Press, 1959 London : Evergreen Books, 1961.

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/1F

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Pagination
(4),217p. ;
Number of pages
217

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17364908M
ISBN 10
0233966633
OCLC/WorldCat
3786118
Goodreads
1410085

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