by James Campbell · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099282693
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«This Is the Beat Generation» is James Campbell's literary history essay, published by Vintage in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Campbell reconstructs the origins of the Beat Generation in New York in 1944, with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs marked by prisons and asylums. A murder in their circle is the starting point; then, the first reading of «Howl» in San Francisco, Burroughs's stay at the Beat Hotel and the Buddhist influence on Kerouac.
The book was originally published in 1999 with the subtitle «New York – San Francisco – Paris»; this Vintage edition is from May 2000.
For readers of twentieth-century American literature and postwar culture: an entry point to the beat movement and its protagonists.
Lieutenant-General Sir James Campbell KB was a British army officer and Whig politician who represented the constituency of Ayrshire in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1727 to 1741. A distinguished cavalry officer, Campbell began his military career at a young age and fought in several conflicts of the Second Hundred Years' War, along with serving as the governor of Edinburgh Castle from 1738 until his death in 1745.
