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| Author | Jack Kerouac |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Duluoz Legend |
| Genre | Beat, stream of consciousness |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Cudahy |
Publication date | September 11, 1962 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 0-14-016812-5 |
| OCLC | 26089403 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3521.E735 B5 1992 |
| Preceded by | Lonesome Traveler (1960) |
| Followed by | Visions of Gerard (1963) |
Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac, written in the fall of 1961 over a ten-day period, with Kerouac typewriting onto a teletype roll.[1] It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti; at the same time dealing with his increased drinking and declining mental health. It is Kerouac’s first novel to be fully written following his success in the late 1950s, and thus departs from his previous fictionalized autobiographical series in that the character Duluoz is shown as a popular, published author; most of Kerouac's previous novels instead portray him as a bohemian traveller.
- ^ Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur. New York: Library of America, 2015, p. 763 ISBN 978-1-59853374-3.