Big Sur (novel)

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Big Sur
Author Jack Kerouac
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
Publication date 1962
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages Approx. 256 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-14-016812-5
Preceded by Lonesome Traveler
(1960)
Followed by Visions of Gerard
(1963)

Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac. It recounts the time when Kerouac (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz), at the height of his fame, stayed at a cabin in Big Sur, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti for a period, struggling to get over what might be a nervous breakdown, alcoholism or both. For a while the writer lives a happy, contemplative life of simple pleasures, until his craving for company drives him back to the city. The book is very dark, and deals very directly and explicitly with delirium tremens.

"Because of the objections of my early publishers I was not allowed to use the same personae names in each work." [2]

Real-life person Character name
Jack Kerouac Jack Duluoz
Neal Cassady Cody Pomeray
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lorenzo Monsanto
Allen Ginsberg Irwin Garden
Lenora Kandel Ramona
Robert LaVigne Robert Browning
Michael McClure Pat McLear
Jackie Gibson Mercer Willamine "Billie" Dabney
Albert Saijo George Baso
Alan Watts Arthur Wayne

  1. ^ Sandison, Daivd. Jeck Kerouac: An Illustrated Biography. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. 1999
  2. ^ Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. London and New York: Penguin Books Ltd. 1993.
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