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The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac’s Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux Véronique Lane Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc NEW YORK • LONDON • OXFORD • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway 50 Bedford Square New York London NY 10018 WC1B 3DP USA UK www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2017 © Véronique Lane, 2017 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lane, Vâeronique author. Title: The French genealogy of the Beat generation : Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac’s appropriations of modern literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux / Vâeronique Lane. Description: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017007922 (print) | LCCN 2017027765 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501325052 (ePub) | ISBN 9781501325069 (ePDF) | ISBN 9781501325045 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: American literature–20th century–History and criticism. | Beat generation. | American literature–French influences. Classification: LCC PS228.B6 (ebook) | LCC PS228.B6 L36 2017 (print) | DDC 810.9/0054–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007922 ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-2504-5 ePub: 978-1-5013-2505-2 ePDF: 978-1-5013-2506-9 Cover design: Eleanor Rose Cover image © Allen Ginsberg LLC Typeset by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com. Here you will find extracts, author interviews, details of forthcoming events, and the option to sign up for our newsletters. Pour Viviane Harris, dont c’est aussi la généalogie Contents List of Figures viii Acknowledgements x Introduction: Beyond “Rimbaud in a Raincoat” 1 1 Burroughs or Kerouac’s Rimbaud: To Be or Not to Be “L I T E R A R Y” 25 2 French Poetic Realist Film in Kerouac’s Unknown Bookmovie 43 3 Kerouac’s Humanism: From Céline and Dostoevsky to Proust 57 4 Burroughs’ Queer Aesthetics: From Gide to Cocteau 93 5 Looking Back on Ginsberg’s “Howl” from “Apollinaire’s Grave” 115 6 The Pitfalls of Open Secrecy: “Has Nobody Noticed” St.-John Perse? 143 7 Burroughs’ (Anti)humanism: Saint Genet and the Last Lifeboat 169 8 Burroughs’ Mugwumps, Michaux’s Meidosems and the Future of Literature 187 Conclusion: A Purloined Genealogy 215 Notes 219 Bibliography 235 Index 247 List of Figures I.1 Allen Ginsberg in Room 25 of the Beat Hotel, 9 rue Gît-le-Coeur, Paris (1957) © Topfoto, Harold Chapman 18 I.2 William Burroughs reading a bilingual edition of Vents by St.-John Perse (1953) © Allen Ginsberg LLC 21 I.3 William Burroughs “camping as an André Gidean sophisticate lecturing the earnest Thomas Wolfean All-American youth Jack Kerouac” (1953) © Allen Ginsberg LLC 23 1.1 Facsimile, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso, “SONS OF YOUR IN,” in Minutes to Go (on the left), made from Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “A une Raison” (on the right) 39 1.2 William Burroughs, photomontage, “Untitled” (1964) © The Estate of William S. Burroughs, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC. Enlarged: front cover of the bilingual edition of Rimbaud’s Illuminations that Burroughs used for his cut-ups (Trans. Louise Varèse. New Directions, 1946) 41 2.1 Three characters’ points of view in Jack Kerouac’s I Wish I Were You 55 8.1 Henri Michaux, Meidosems, Plate I (1948) © Gallimard 196 8.2 Henri Michaux, Meidosems, Plate IX (1948) © Gallimard 196 8.3 Henri Michaux, Meidosems, Plate II (1948) © Gallimard 197 8.4 Henri Michaux, Meidosems, Plate VII (1948) © Gallimard 198 8.5 Henri Michaux, Meidosems, Plate X (1948) © Gallimard 199 8.6 Henri Michaux, Meidosems, Plate XII (1948) © Gallimard 199 8.7 Henri Michaux, Meidosems, Plate III (1948) © Gallimard 200 8.8 Henri Michaux, Meidosems, Plate VI (1948) © Gallimard 201 8.9 Henri Michaux, Meidosems, Plate VIII (1948) © Gallimard 202 8.10 Henri Michaux, Meidosems, Plate V (1948) © Gallimard 203 8.11 Facsimile, page of glyphs from William Burroughs’ letter to Allen Ginsberg (January 2, 1959) © The Estate of William S. Burroughs, courtesy of the Allen Ginsberg Papers at Columbia University, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC 208 List of Figures ix 8.12 Facsimile, William Burroughs, Episode 9 of “Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch,” originally published in Big Table, no. 1 (Spring 1959) © The Estate of William S. Burroughs, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC 210
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