Big Sur (novel)

Big Sur

First edition cover
Author	Jack Kerouac
Language	English
Series	Duluoz Legend
Genre	Beat, stream of consciousness
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
Publication date	September 11, 1962
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	256
ISBN	0-14-016812-5
OCLC	26089403
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3521.E735 B5 1992
Preceded by	Lonesome Traveler (1960)
Followed by	Visions of Gerard (1963)

Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac, written in the fall of 1961 over a ten-day period, with Kerouac typewriting onto a teletype roll.^[1] It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti; at the same time dealing with his increased drinking and declining mental health. It is Kerouac’s first novel to be fully written following his success in the late 1950s, and thus departs from his previous fictionalized autobiographical series in that the character Duluoz is shown as a popular, published author; most of Kerouac's previous novels instead portray him as a bohemian traveller.