Docteur Sax
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du monde entier », (October 19) 1962.
1 vol. (150 x 220 mm) of 268 p. and [2] f. In wrappers, uncut.
First French edition, in the translation by J. Autret.
One of 41 deluxe copies on vélin pur fil (no. 21), the only paper issue.
Kerouac's fifth and last novel, written in 1952 in Mexico City, where he was staying with William Burroughs.
One of 41 deluxe copies on vélin pur fil (no. 21), the only paper issue.
Kerouac's fifth and last novel, written in 1952 in Mexico City, where he was staying with William Burroughs.
In long, flowing sentences, Kerouac describes the largely autobiographical imaginary world he had built for himself: a world peopled with dreams, anxieties and hallucinations, foremost among them a strange creature who appears at night in the streets of Lowell, the embodiment of all his fears — Doctor Sax, a complex, ghost-like figure, both alluring and frightening, perceived by the young Duluoz as though in a dream.
Doctor Sax forms the second volume of Kerouac’s autobiographical cycle, The Duluoz Legend, following Visions of Gerard, in which the author revisited his early childhood.
Slight sunning to the spine.
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