The Subterraneans
by Jack Kerouac
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The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. It is a semi-fictional account of his short romance with an African American woman named Alene Lee (1931-1991) in New York in 1953. In the novel she is renamed "Mardou Fox," and described as a carefree spirit who frequents the jazz clubs and bars of the budding Beat scene of San Francisco. Other well-known personalities and friends from the author's life also appear thinly disguised in the novel. The character Frank Carmody is based on William Burroughs, and Adam Moorad on Allen Ginsberg. Even Gore Vidal appears as successful novelist Arial Lavalina. Kerouac's alter ego is named Leo Percepied, and his long-time friend Neal Cassady is mentioned only in passing as Leroy.
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Beat Generation, Fiction, Fiction in English, Beats (Persons), San francisco (calif.), fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American fiction, Generación Beat, Novela, Novela estadounidense, Literatura estadounidense, Autores estadounidenses, Beatniks, Romans, nouvelles, Roman américain, Beats (persons), Beats (persons)--fiction, Pz3.k4596 su, Ps3521.e735, Ps3521.e735 s9 1958b, 813.5 k39s, 1958Places
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Los Subterraneos
February 1997, Anagrama, Editorial Anagrama
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The Subterraneans
January 27, 1994, Grove Press
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Les Souterrains
November 21, 1985, Gallimard
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The subterraneans
1981, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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The Subterraneans
September 12, 1973, Ballantine Books
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"ONCE I WAS YOUNG and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac, naturally, facetious won't do-just to start at the beginning and let the truth seep out, that's what I'll do-."
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