The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings

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The Library of America continues its acclaimed Kerouac editions with this remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings, including two novellas originally written in the French-Canadian dialect joual. This unprecedented collection offers intimate glimpses of the growth of Kerouac's mind and art, revealing him, for the first time, to have been essentially an immigrant writer, one whose extraordinary style emerged as a fusion of his native and adopted languages.

Todd Tietchen, editor, is Associate Professor of Englishat the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He editedJack Kerouac's The Haunted Life and Other Writings(2014) and the Library of America volume Kerouac-Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur (2015). Jean-Christophe Cloutier, translator, is Assistant Professor ofEnglish at the University of Pennsylvania. He edited Lavie est d'hommage(2016),a comprehensive volume of Kerouac'soriginal French writings.