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John Clellon Holmes est un romancier, essayiste et poète américain 1, né le 12 mars 1926 à Holyoke au Massachusetts 1 et mort d'un cancer à l'âge de 62 ans le 30 mars 1988, à Middletown dans le Connecticut 1.
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John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926, Holyoke, Massachusetts – March 30, 1988, Middletown, Connecticut) was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go. Considered the first "Beat" novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg.
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Go concerns protagonist Paul Hobbes' struggle to maintain his marriage to his wife, Kathryn, while simultaneously indulging in the world of the 1940s and 1950s Beat Generation. It follows the complications of interpersonal relationships arising from a group of disillusioned and often eccentric young people. Hobbes finds himself in a world of promis...
The original manuscript was named The Daybreak Boys as an allusion to a rivergang on the New York waterfront in the 1840s, but this title was rejected as a book with a similar title had been published by Scribner's shortly before Go was received. The word Go appears regularly in the book, spoken by many of the cast of characters, almost as a mantra...
The characters in Go are, as was common in beat generationliterature, representations of the real people the author knew while writing the book. 1. Paul Hobbes is John Clellon Holmes 2. Gene Pasternak is Jack Kerouac 3. David Stofsky is Allen Ginsberg 4. Hart Kennedy is Neal Cassady 5. Will Dennison is William S. Burroughs 6. Bill Agatson is Bill C...
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Biographie : John Clellon Holmes est un romancier, essayiste et poète américain. Ami proche des membres du mouvement littéraire Beat Generation, notamment Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Herbert Huncke et Bill Cannastra, il fut le premier en 1952 à populariser le terme dans le grand public à travers son roman "Go" et l ...
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26 mars 2013 · We recently passed a watershed moment in modern American literature, as November, 2012, marked sixty years since John Clellon Holmes introduced the term “Beat Generation” in the New York Times Magazine. To many, this is the sum of all Holmes is known for.
31 mars 1988 · John Clellon Holmes, a writer and a poet who was regarded as a spokesman for the Beat Generation, died of cancer yesterday at Middlesex Memorial Hospital in Middletown, Conn. He was 62 years...
Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. In February 1958, John Clellon Holmes wondered in his journal why he was not as widely known as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. In fact, he began to wonder why he seemed to be excluded from general consideration as one of the Beat writers.
