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    The Electrocution Of Block 38383939383

    By Jack Kerouac

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    In 1954, Jack Kerouac announced that he was writing the world's first Beat Science Fiction novel; what resulted the following year was actually a short story of around 10,000 words entitled cityCityCITY, a futurist dystopian tale of a mega-city plated in superconducting steel, whose inhabitants are housed in Zone Blocks-which double, when necessary, as electrified mass-execution chambers. Kerouac apparently sent this blueprint to William S. Burroughs with a request to collaborate on a full-length version, but Burroughs declined. Thus the story languished in limbo, until a new version of it, entitled The Electrocution Of Block 38383939383', was published in 1959 (in Nugget magazine). This special ebook edition of The Electrocution Of Block 38383939383-as it was originally published, restores to prominence one of the most intriguing literary experiments of Kerouac's oeuvre, and of the Beat Generation as a whole.
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    PublisherElektron Ebooks
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9781909923393
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    Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) es el novelista más destacado y emblemático de la Generación Beat. En Anagrama se han publicado sus obras fundamentales: En el camino, Los subterráneos, Los Vagabundos del Dharma, La vanidad de los Duluoz y En la carretera. El rollo mecanografiado original, además de Cartas, la selección de su correspondencia con Allen Ginsberg, y, con William S. Burroughs, Y los hipopótamos se cocieron en sus tanques.

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      It’s a shame that Jack Kerouac never learned about high school level composition/ writing before he wrote this story. Paragraphs are our friend, and they may have saved some of my eye/rolls while reading.

      Kerouac was not a science fiction author. It’s a hard subject matter, and requires a different level of thinking and writing than a novel or even a biography. JK just should’ve kept to writing the prose we know he’s good at.