Doctor Sax
By Jack Kerouac
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“Kerouac’s best book.”—TIME
Dr. Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.”
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) was an American novelist and poet who influenced generations of writers. He is recognized for his spontaneous prose style and for being a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Book One is a disjointed collection of childhood memories and characters. He sure did like The Shadow! I liked the baseball reminisces. Books Three and Six are more of the same.Book Two is written in 24 scenes, detailing events in the author’s thirteen year. Horse racing and pool halls. Book Four is titled “The Night the Man with the Watermelon Died” and Book Five details the flood in Lowell.Honestly, I was very confused reading this book. The childhood pieces I basically understood, but the Dr. Sax storyline was weird, and ultimately for me, uninteresting. There is some kind of phantom, and there are vampires and a castle. And quite a bit of the book is about this Sax person/thing. Strange meanderings from the brain of Mr. Kerouac.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was an internalized, intense character study set amidst demons, monsters, ghosts, and the infamous Doctor Sax in an assembly of short passages, each one tersely and eloquently written, in the midst of Kerouac's childhood. I've never quite read a novel like this- its flow, the images, the poetry, the dialogue, the atmosphere, the flow, it's all overflowing and mingling into each other to become something greater than the sum of its individual parts. An extremely entertaining, illuminating, intellectual, mystical, and revealing portrait of a man. This is among Kerouac's greatest works of fiction. All hats off, he did so well.5 stars- LOVED it!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Didn't work for me. I couldn't find any thing to grab onto in terms of the story (if there was one)
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5There's stream-of-consciousness and there are the ramblings of the severely intoxicated. The latter are a lot less readable than the former. This is my second, minor, work by Jack Kerouac and it makes me wonder whether the Beat generation are overrated.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5One for the afficionados - not my favourite Kerouac work I'm afraid...
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Doctor Sax - Jack Kerouac
Praise for Jack Kerouac
An outsider in America, Jack Kerouac was a true original.
—Ann Charters
The wonder of Kerouac’s muscular, free-form, imagistic language still astonishes. He remains an essential American mythologizer—one caught up in that backstreet world of bohemian life, before it was transformed by the harsh social Darwinism of capitalism . . . A hundred years after his birth, we still want to live that Kerouacian vision of life as one long cool stretch of highway.
—New Statesman
Kerouac is more relevant than ever as we mark 100 years since his birth.
—The Guardian
Kerouac dreams of America in the authentic rolling rhythms of a Whitman or a Thomas Wolfe, drunk with eagerness for life.
—John K. Hutchens
"On the Road is the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as ‘beat,’ and whose principal avatar he is . . . A major novel."
—New York Times
"The way that [On the Road] is so enduring—so impervious to shifting cultural winds—seems to indicate something about how successfully it articulates a very American rootlessness . . . A hysterical elegy for threatened male freedom . . . Might be the last great American novel about masculine seduction."
—New Yorker
"On the Road has the kind of drive that blasts through to a large public . . . What makes the novel really important, what gives it that drive is a genuine new, engaging and exciting prose style . . . What keeps the book going is the power and beauty of the writing."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"Big Sur is so devastatingly honest and painful and yet so beautifully written . . . He was sharing his pain and suffering with the reader in the same way Dostoevsky did, with the idea of salvation through suffering."
—David Amram
In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac’s best book . . . Certainly, he has never displayed more ‘gentle sweetness.’
—San Francisco Chronicle, on Big Sur
Kerouac’s grittiest novel to date and the one which will be read with most respect by those skeptical of all the Beat business in the first place.
—New York Times Book Review, on Big Sur
The proper way to read this book . . . is straight through at one sitting . . . The poet’s gift for masquerade is first-class, and he is very hard to locate. But what seems to me to emerge at the end is a voice of remarkable kindness and gentleness, and engaging and modest good humor and a quite genuine spiritual simplicity that convinces as all the dogmatic assertions and affirmations did not.
—Hudson Review, on Mexico City Blues
Kerouac’s book is a series of improvisations, notes, a shorthand of perceptions and memories, having in large part the same kind of word-play and rhythmic invention to be found in his prose.
—Poetry, on Mexico City Blues
DOCTOR SAX
WORKS BY JACK KEROUAC
Published by Grove Press
Lonesome Traveler
Mexico City Blues
Satori in Paris
Pic
The Subterraneans
DOCTOR SAX
Faust Part Three
JACK KEROUAC
Grove Press
New York
Copyright © 1959 by Jack Kerouac
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BOOK ONE
Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night
1
THE OTHER NIGHT I had a dream that I was sitting on the sidewalk on Moody Street, Pawtucketville, Lowell, Mass., with a pencil and paper in my hand saying to myself Describe the wrinkly tar of this sidewalk, also the iron pickets of Textile Institute, or the doorway where Lousy and you and G.J.’s always sittin and dont stop to think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better—and let your mind off yourself in this work.
Just before that I was coming down the hill between Gershom Avenue and that spectral street where Billy Artaud used to live, towards Blezan’s corner store, where on Sundays the fellows stand in bestsuits after church smoking, spitting, Leo Martin saying to Sonny Alberge or Joe Plouffe, "Eh, batêge, ya faite un grand sarman s’foi icite—(
Holy Batchism, he made a long sermon this time) and Joe Plouffe, prognathic, short, glidingly powerful, spits into the large pebblestones of Gershom paved and walks on home for breakfast with no comment (he lived with his sisters and brothers and mother because the old man had thrown em all out—
Let my bones melt in this rain!"—to live a hermit existence in the darkness of his night—rheumy red-eyed old sickmonster scrooge of the block)—
Doctor Sax I first saw in his earlier lineaments in the early Catholic childhood of Centralville—deaths, funerals, the shroud of that, the dark figure in the corner when you look at the dead man coffin in the dolorous parlor of the open house with a horrible purple wreath on the door. Figures of coffinbearers emerging from a house on a rainy night bearing a box with dead old Mr. Yipe inside. The statue of Ste. Thérèse turning her head in an antique Catholic twenties film with Ste. Thérèse dashing across town in a car with W.C. Fieldsian close shaves by the young religious hero while the doll (not Ste. Thérèse herself but the lady hero symbolic thereof) heads for her saintliness with wide eyes of disbelief. We had a statue of Ste. Thérèse in my house—on West Street I saw it turn its head at me—in the dark. Earlier, too, horrors of the Jesus Christ of passion plays in his shrouds and vestments of saddest doom mankind in the Cross Weep for Thieves and Poverty—he was at the foot of my bed pushing it one dark Saturday night (on Hildreth & Lilley secondfloor flat full of Eternity outside)—either He or the Virgin Mary stooped with phosphorescent profile and horror pushing my bed. That same night an elfin, more cheery ghost of some Santa Claus kind rushed up and slammed my door; there was no wind; my sister was taking a bath in the rosy bathroom of Saturday night home, and my mother scrubbing her back or tuning Wayne King on the old mahogany radio or glancing at the top Maggie and Jiggs funnies just come in from wagon boys outside (same who rushed among the downtown redbricks of my Chinese mystery) so I called out "Who slammed my door (Qui a farmez ma porte?) and they said nobody (
Parsonne voyons donc")—and I knew I was haunted but said nothing; not long after that I dreamed the horrible dream of the rattling red livingroom, newly painted a strange 1929 varnish red and I saw it in the dream all dancing and rattling like skeletons because my brother Gerard haunted them and dreamed I woke up screaming by the phonograph machine in the adjoining room with its Masters Voice curves in the brown wood— Memory and dream are intermixed in this mad universe.
2
IN THE DREAM of the wrinkly tar corner I saw it, hauntingly, Riverside Street as it ran across Moody and into the fabulously rich darknesses of Sarah Avenue and Rosemont the Mysterious . . . Rosemont:—community built in the floodable river flats and also on gentle slopes uprising that to the foot of the sandbank, the cemetery meadows and haunted ghostfields of Luxy Smith hermits and Mill Pond so mad—in the dream I only fancied the first steps from that wrinkly tar,
right around the corner, views of Moody Street Lowell—arrowing to the City Hall Clock (with time) and downtown red antennas and Chinese restaurant Kearney Square neons in the Massachusetts Night; then a glance to the right at Riverside Street running off to hide itself in the rich respectaburban wildhouses of Fraternity presidents of Textile (O!—) and oldlady Whitehairs landladies, the street suddenly emerging from this Americana of lawns and screens and Emily Dickinson hidden schoolteachers behind lace blinds into the raw drama of the river where the land, the New England rockyland of high-bluffs dipped to kiss the lip of Merrimac in his rushing roars over tumult and rock to the sea, fantastic and mysterious from the snow North, goodbye;—walked to the left, passed the holy doorway where G.J. and Lousy and I hung sitting in the mystery which I now see hugens, huger, into something beyond my Grook, beyond my Art & Pale, into the secret of what God has done with my Time;—tenement standing on the wrinkly tar corner, four stories high, with a court, washlines, clothespins, flies drumming in the sun (I dreamed I lived in that tenement, cheap rent, good view, rich furniture, my mother glad, my father off playing cards
or maybe just dumbly sitting in a chair agreeing with us, the dream)— And the last time I was in Massachusetts I stood in the cold winter night watching the Social Club and actually seeing Leo Martin breathing winter fogs cut in for aftersupper game of pool like when I was small, and also noticing the corner tenement because the poor Canucks my people of my God-gave-me-life were burning dull electric lights in a brown doom gloom of kitchen with Catholic calendar in the toilet door (Ah Me), a sight full of sorrow and labor—the scenes of my childhood— In the doorway G.J., Gus J. Rigopoulos, and I, Jackie Duluoz, local sandlot sensation and big punk; and Lousy, Albert Lauzon, the Human Cave-In (he had a Cave-In chest), the Kid Lousy, World’s Champion Silent Spitter and also sometimes Paul Boldieu our pitcher and grim driver of later jaloppy limousines of adolescent whim—
Take note, take note, well of them take note,
I’m saying to myself in the dream, when you pass the doorway look very close at Gus Rigopoulos, Jackie Duluoz and Lousy.
I see them now on Riverside Street in the waving high dark.
3
THERE ARE HUNDREDS of people strolling in the street, in the dream . . . it’s Sanurday Sun Night, they’re all roshing to the Clo-Sol— Downtown, in real restaurants of reality, my mother and father, like shadows on a menu card sitting by a shadow-grill window with 1920’s drapes hanging heavy behind them, all an ad, saying Thank you, call again to dine and dance at Ron Foo’s 467 Market Street Rochester,
—they’re eating at Chin Lee’s, he’s an old friend of the family’s, he knew me, gave us lichee nut for Christmas, one time a great Ming pot (placed on dark piano of parlor glooms and angels in dust veils with doves, the Catholicity of the swarming dust, and my thoughts); it’s Lowell, outside the decorated chink windows is Kearney Square teeming with life. By Gosh,
says my father patting his belly, that was a good meal.
Step softly, ghost.
4
FOLLOW THE GREAT RIVERS on the maps of South America (origin of Doctor Sax), trace your Putumayos to a Napo-further Amazonian junction, map the incredible uncrossable jungles, the southern Parañas of amaze, stare at the huge grook of a continent bulging with an Arctic-Antarctic—to me the Merrimac River was a mighty Napo of continental importance . . . the continent of New England. She fed from some snakelike source with maws approach and wide, welled from the hidden dank, came, named Merrimac, into the winding Weirs and Franklin Falls, the Winnepesaukies (of Nordic pine) (and Albatrossian grandeur), the Manchesters, Concords, Plum Islands of Time.
The thunderous husher of our sleep at night—
I could hear it rise from the rocks in a groaning wush ululating with the water, sprawlsh, sprawlsh, oom, oom, zoooo, all night long the river says zooo, zooo, the stars are fixed in rooftops like ink. Merrimac, dark name, sported dark valleys: my Lowell had the great trees of antiquity in the rocky north waving over lost arrowheads and Indian scalps, the pebbles on the slatecliff beach are full of hidden beads and were stepped on barefoot by Indians. Merrimac comes swooping from a north of eternities, falls pissing over locks, cracks and froths on rocks, bloth, and rolls frawing to the kale, calmed in dewpile stone holes slaty sharp (we dove off, cut our feet, summer afternoon stinky hookies), rocks full of ugly old suckers not fit to eat, and crap from sewage, and dyes, and you swallowed mouthfuls of the chokeful water— By moonlight night I see the Mighty Merrimac foaming in a thousand white horses upon the tragic plains below. Dream:—wooden sidewalk planks of Moody Street Bridge fall out, I hover on beams over rages of white horses in the roaring low,—moaning onward, armies and cavalries of charging Euplantus Eudronicus King Grays loop’d & curly like artists’ work, and with clay souls’ snow curlicue rooster togas in the fore front.
I had a terror of those waves, those rocks—
5
DOCTOR SAX lived in the woods, he was no city shroud. I see him stalking with the incredible Jean Fourchette, woodsman of the dump, idiot, giggler, toothless-broken-brown, scarched, sniggerer at fires, loyal beloved companion of long childhood walks— The tragedy of Lowell and the Sax Snake is in the woods, the world around—
In the fall there were great sere brown sidefields sloping down to the Merrimac all rich with broken pines and browns, fall, the whistle was just shrilled to end the third quarter in the wintry November field where crowds and me and father stood watching scuffling uproars of semipro afternoons like in the days of old Indian Jim Thorpe, boom, touchdown. There were deer in the Billerica woods, maybe one or two in Dracut, three or four in Tyngsboro, and a hunter’s corner in the Lowell Sun sports page. Great serried cold pines of October morning when school’s re-started and the apples are in, stood naked in the northern gloom waiting for denudement. In the winter the Merrimac River flooded in its ice; except for a narrow strip in the middle where ice was fragile with crystals of current the whole swingaround basin of Rosemont and the Aiken Street Bridge was laid flat for winter skating parties that could be observed from the bridge with a snow telescope in the gales and along the Lakeview side dump minor figures of Netherlander snowscapes are marooning in the whorly world of pale white snow. A blue saw cracks down across the ice. Hockey games devour the fire where the girls are huddled, Billy Artaud with clenched teeth is smashing the opponent’s hockey stick with a kick of spiked shoes in the fiendish glare of winter fighting days, I’m going backwards in a circle at forty miles an hour trailing the puck till I lose it on a bounce and the other Artaud brothers are rushing up pellmell in a clatter of Dit Clappers to roar into the fray—
This the same raw river, poor river, March melts, brings Doctor Sax and the rainy nights of the Castle.
6
THERE WERE BLUE HOLIDAY EVES, Christmas time, be-sparkled all over town almost the length and breadth of which I could see from the back Textile field after a Sunday afternoon show, dinnertime, the roast beef waiting, or ragout d’boullette, the whole sky unforgettable, heightened by the dry ice of weather’s winter glare, air rarefied pure blue, sad, just as it appears at such hours over the redbrick alleys and Lowell Auditorium marble forums, with snowbanks in the red streets for sadness, and flights of lost Lowell Sunday suppertime birds flying to a Polish fence for breadcrumbs—no notion there of the Lowell that came later, the Lowell of mad midnights under gaunt pines by the lickety ticky moon, blowing with a shroud, a lantern, a burying of dirt, a digging up of dirt, gnomes, axles full of grease lying in the river water and the moon glinting in a rat’s eye—the Lowell, the World, you find.
Doctor Sax hides around the corner of my mind.
SCENE: A masked by night shadow flitting over the edge of the sandbank.
SOUND: A dog barking half a mile away; and river.
SMELL: Sweet sand dew.
TEMPERATURE: Summer mid night frost.
MONTH: Late August, ballgame’s over, no more homeruns over the center of the arcanum of sand our Circus, our diamond in the sand, where ballgames took place in the reddy dusk,—now it’s going to be the flight of the caw-caw bird of autumn, honking to his skinny grave in the Alabama pines.
SUPPOSITION: Doctor Sax has just disappeared over the sandbank and’s gone home to bed.
7
FROM TIIE WRINKLY TAR corner Moody begins her suburban rise through the salt white tenements of Pawtucketville to reach a Greek peak at the Dracut border wild woods surrounding Lowell, where Greek veterans of American occupation from Crete rush in the early morn with a pail for the goat in the meadow—Dracut Tigers is the name of the Meadow, it is where in the late summer we conduct vast baseball series in a gray clawmouth rainy dark of Final Games, September, Leo Martin pitching, Gene Plouffe shortstop, Joe Plouffe (in the soft piss of mists) temporarily playing rightfield (later Paul Boldieu, p, Jack Duluoz, c, a great battery all in time when summer gets hot and dusty again)—Moody Street achieves the top of the hill and surveys these Greek farms and intervening 2-story wooden bungalow flats in dreary field-edges of Marchy old November dropping his birch on a silhouette hill in silver dusk-fall, craw. Dracut Tigers sitting there with a stonewall behind, and roads to Pine Brook, wild dark Lowell so swallowed me doom its croign of holobaws,—Moody Street that begins a den of thieves near the City Hall concludes ’mongst ballplayers of the windy hill (all roar like Denver, Minneapolis, St. Paul with the activities of ten thousand heroes of poolhall, field and porch) (hear the hunters crash their guns in skinny black brakes, making