Title: Les Souterrains
Description: The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. It is a semi-fictional account of his short romance with an African American woman named Alene Lee (1931-1991) in New York in 1953. 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.
Subjects: Beat Generation, Fiction, Fiction in English, Beats (Persons), San francisco (calif.), fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American fiction, Generación Beat, Novela, Novela estadounidense, Literatura estadounidense, Autores estadounidenses, Beatniks, Romans, nouvelles, Roman américain, Beats (persons), Beats (persons)--fiction, Pz3.k4596 su, Ps3521.e735, Ps3521.e735 s9 1958b, 813.5 k39s, 1958
Places: San Francisco, New York
People: Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Alene Lee, Gore Vidal, Neal Cassady
Time periods: 1953