Infinite jest. Customer Reviews: Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read. The Subterraneans. The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac.
It is a semi-fictional account of his short romance with a black woman named Alene Lee (1931-1991) in New York City, 1953.[1] In the novel she is renamed "Mardou Fox," and described as a carefree spirit who frequents the jazz clubs and bars of the budding Beat scene of San Francisco. Other well-known personalities and friends from the author's life also appear thinly disguised in the novel. The character Frank Carmody is based on William Burroughs, and Adam Moorad on Allen Ginsberg. Even Gore Vidal appears as successful novelist Arial Lavalina. Kerouac's alter ego is named Leo Percepied, and his long-time friend Neal Cassady is mentioned only in passing as Leroy. Character Key[edit] Kerouac often based his fictional characters on friends and family.[2][3] "Because of the objections of my early publishers I was not allowed to use the same personae names in each work.
" [4] Criticism and literary significance[edit] Doctor Sax. 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. Plot summary[edit] The novel begins with Jackie Duluoz, based on Kerouac himself, relating a dream in which he finds himself in Lowell, Massachusetts, his childhood home town. Prompted by this dream, he recollects the story of his childhood of warm browns and sepia tones, along with his shrouded childhood fantasies, which have become inextricable from the memories. The fantasies pertain to a castle in Lowell atop a muted green hill that Jackie calls Snake Hill. The eponymous Doctor Sax, also part of Jackie's fantasy world, is a dark but ultimately friendly figure with a shrouded black cape, an inky black slouch hat, a haunting laugh, and a "disease of the night" called Visagus Nightsoil that causes his skin to turn mossy green at night.
Character Key[edit] Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake[edit] The Best Books We Read In 2012. Band of Thebes. The Swimming Pool Library. The Swimming-Pool Library is a 1988 novel by Alan Hollinghurst.
Plot introduction[edit] In 1983 London, the privileged, gay, and apparently sexually irresistible 25-year-old protagonist Will saves the life of an elderly aristocrat having a heart-attack in a public lavatory. This chance meeting sets in process a chain of events that will ultimately require the highly intelligent but essentially carefree Will to substantially re-evaluate his sense of the past and of his family's history. Explanation of the title[edit] The title has at least three meanings.
Also, at Charles Nantwich's home there is a room that has served as a library and was once a Roman bath. And, Will borrows trashy homoerotic novels from one of the lifeguards at the Corinthian club. Plot summary[edit] William Beckwith is a highly privileged, cultivated and promiscuous young gay man. The Line of Beauty. The Line of Beauty is a 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst.
Plot[edit] Set in Britain in the early to mid-1980s, the story surrounds the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest, who has come down from Oxford with a first in English and is to begin postgraduate studies at University College London. The novel begins in the summer of 1983, shortly after Thatcher's landslide victory in that year's general election. Nick moves into the luxurious London home of the wealthy Fedden family. Ronald Firbank. Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (17 January 1886 – 21 May 1926) was an innovative British novelist.
His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality. Biography[edit] Living off his inheritance, he travelled around Spain, Italy, the Middle East, and North Africa. Openly gay,[3] chronically shy, and an enthusiastic consumer of alcohol and cannabis, he died of lung disease in Rome, aged 40.
He is buried in the Campo Verano cemetery.[4] City Lights Books. Books. Berlusconi’s So-Called Bunga-Bunga Life By Barbie Latza Nadeau In a new authorized biography, ‘My Way,’ there’s an ‘awestruck’ Putin, the sick joke he and Gaddafi made famous—and the Italian playboy PM who remains as slippery as ever.
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