{"product_id":"9781501325045","title":"The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation : Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe French Genealogy of the Beat Generation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Véronique Lane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French literature and culture participate in the emergence of the Beat Generation? French modernism did much more than inspire its first major writers, it materially shaped their works, as this comparative study reveals through close textual analysis of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's appropriations of French literature and culture. Sometimes acknowledged, sometimes not, their appropriations take multiple forms, ranging from allusions, invocations and citations to adaptations and translations, and they involve a vast array of works, including the poetic realist films of Carné and Cocteau, the existentialist philosophy of Sartre, and the poems and novels of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Proust, Gide, Apollinaire, St.-John Perse, Artaud, Céline, Genet and Michaux.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile clarifying the extent of Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's engagements with French literature and culture, in-depth analysis of their textual appropriations emphasises differences in their views of literature, philosophy and politics, which help us understand the early Beat circle was divided from the start. The book's close-readings also transform our perception of Burroughs' cut-up practice, Kerouac's spontaneous prose, and Ginsberg's poetics of open secrecy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“The first and most thorough book-length attempt to rectify [a] disciplinary blind-spot by uncovering the major Beat Generation writers’ multi-faceted appropriations of French literary antecedents. From a Francophone perspective, but with a comparativist’s sensibility for nuanced readings of translingual and cross-cultural literary appropriation, Lane’s essays tackle both the infamous and the forgotten works of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs … Through her genealogical, archaeological, and inter-textual approach, Lane’s startling, at times haunting, juxtapositions reveal the vibrant and diverse evolution of transatlantic cultural networks across a constellation of slippery texts and subversive artworks … In her genealogy of the French roots of the Beat Generation’s rhizomatic outgrowths, Véronique Lane’s \u003ci\u003eThe French Genealogy of the Beat Generation\u003c\/i\u003e offers an entertaining and erudite invitation to explore the transcultural appropriations that generated America’s most subversive and marginalized literature.” - \u003ci\u003eL’Esprit Créateur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501325045\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40671042601166,"sku":"9781501325045","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_41d22815-03ae-400a-879b-f8d9b4bd5606.jpg?v=1639798986","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501325045","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}