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Dr Sax

  • Jack Kerouac

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Doctor Sax (Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three) is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959. Kerouac wrote it in 1952 while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City.

The novel was written quickly in the improvisatory style Kerouac called “spontaneous prose.” In a letter to Allen Ginsberg dated May 18, 1952, Kerouac wrote, “I’ll simply blow [improvise like a jazz musician] on the vision of the Shadow in my 13th and 14th years on Sarah Ave. Lowell, culminated by the myth itself as I dreamt it in Fall 1948 . . . angles of my hoop-rolling boyhood as seen from the shroud.” In a letter to Ginsberg dated November 8 of the same year, Kerouac admits “Doctor Sax was written high on tea [marijuana] without pausing to think, sometimes Bill [Burroughs] would come in the room and so the chapter ended there, . . .” (ibid, p. 185).

Genres

  • Beat generation
  • Fiction in English
  • Fiction
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • American literature
  • Modern fiction
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About the author

  • Jack Kerouac

    12 March 1922 - 21 October 1969

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Editions

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    Gallimard, Gallimard Education

    June 23, 1994

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    New Ed edition

    Flamingo

    May 7, 1992

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    Buccaneer Books Inc

    June 1976

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    Deutsch

    1977

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Flamingo

1995

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    Evergreen ed.

    Grove Press

    1959

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    Panther

    June 26, 1980

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    Grove Press

    1959

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    New Evergreen ed.

    Grove Press

    1987

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    Penguin Classics

    2012

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    Mondadori

    1977

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    HarperCollins Publishers Limited

    2006

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    Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

    1975

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    Grove Pr

    July 1971

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    Buccaneer Books

    1959

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    Grove P.,Evergreen Books

    1961

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    Amereon Limited

    December 1976

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    Grove Pr

    July 1971

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    Buccaneer Books

    1975

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    Deutsch

    1977

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    Grove Press

    1959

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2012

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    Grove Press

    1959

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    Ballantine

    1977

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    Ballantine Books

    September 12, 1973