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Original Title:	The Subterraneans
ISBN:	0802131867 (ISBN13: 9780802131867)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Duluoz Legend
Characters:	Leo Percepied, Julian Alexander, Frank Carmody, Sam Vedder
Setting:	San Francisco, California(United States)

The Subterraneans (Duluoz Legend) Paperback | Pages: 128 pages

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Title	:	The Subterraneans (Duluoz Legend)
Author	:	Jack Kerouac
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 128 pages
Published	:	1994 by Grove Weidenfeld (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. American. 20th Century. The United States Of America

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Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road, here continues his peregrinations in postwar, underground San Francisco. "The subterraneans" come alive at night, travel along dark alleyways, and live in a world filled with paint, poetry, music, smoke, and sex. Simmering in the center of it all is the brief affair between Leo Percepied, a writer, and Mardou Fox, a black woman ten years younger. Just at the moment when she is coolly leaving him, Leo realizes his passion for passion, his inability to function without it, and the puzzling futility of seeking redemption and fulfillment through writing.

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For me this was a special experience, not necessarily because of the story but because of Kerouacs writing style, the language he uses leaves you behing speachless and its probably some of the best prose Ive ever read.

Ahh, The beat generation. What an Isle of Misfit Toys. I think from most of the books I have read, the ones from the beat generation are the most interesting. I haven't secured a copy of On the Road But when I do I will fully judge Jack Kerouac. Moving on to this book. I was rather interested in the main character at the beginning of the book. He is a Vagabond/Sailor/Hippie in the San Francisco area. He has a group of friends that pretty much do nothing more then sit around and drink and smoke



I had not read any Kerouac for 30 years and saw this one in the library -written in his 'spontaneous prose' style which requires a lot of concentration to read and absorb. Set in San Francisco, with friends like Ginsberg and Burroughs disguised with pseudonyms, it tells of a love affair with a half-negro, half-Cherokee woman. The narrative is dominated by his drinking and his frustration at not being published is also obvious, and his alter-ego, Leo, is not a sympathetic character. Reputedly

In my spin through Kerouac's books, my friend said after reading On The Road and The Dharma Bums that my next task should be The Subterraneans.Apparently, he wrote this 110-page book in only three days. While the bulk of On The Road was written in this way, making it an American classic, I have to say that for this book, it didn't work as well.Here, Kerouac shows a more poetic than prosaic style. The sentences seem more like lyrics than in the other two books. Yet here that seemed to take away

There they are -- the Subterraneans -- drunk as skunks while they burble on about literature and their love lives. Jack Kerouac (Leo Percepied in the book) wants nothing more than spend all his hours with these pseudo-intellectual lowlifes, but at the same time attempt to maintain a relationship with Mardou Fox, a young black woman. The Subterraneans is the story of this relationship and how it winds to a close with Jack deciding in the end he wanted life on his own boozy terms. The pity of it

Oh, Jack. As always, the enthusiasm and momentum in his writing is infectious. I havent read anything by Kerouac for a few years before picking this one up, and Id forgotten about the weirdness of trying to settle into it like its a linear story intended to be clearly followed in detail when really its a tilt-a-whirl kind of ride not about to stop and explain itself so all I can do is hang on, watch the colors spinning past, catch enough bits and pieces of the conversations and memories to be