The French genealogy of the Beat Generation : Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's appropriations of modern literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux /

The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French literature and culture participate in the emergence of the Beat Generation? French modernism did much...

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