The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963 - Hardcover

Miles, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080211668X ISBN 13: 9780802116680

Publisher: Grove Press, 2000

Synopsis

Called "a vivid picture of literary life along the Left Bank in the late 1950s and early 1960s . . . [and] fun reading" by Library Journal, The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with Duchamp and Celine, and where some of their most important work came to fruition -- Ginsberg's "Kaddish" and "To Aunt Rose"; Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death; and Burroughs's Naked Lunch. Based on firsthand accounts from diaries, letters, and many original interviews, The Beat Hotel is an intimate look at a place that, the San Francisco Chronicle has written, "gave the spirit of Dean Moriarty and the genius of Genet and Duchamp a place to dream together of new worlds over a glass of vin ordinaire".

About this title

Synopsis:

Recreates the period from 1957 to 1963 when Paris's Beat Hotel, a cheap rooming house on the Left Bank, became the home and gathering place of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and other luminaries of the Beat Generation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 080211668X
• ISBN 13: 9780802116680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294