- Creator
- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
- Call number
- Berg Coll 24834
- Physical description
- 1 item (1 leaf) (27 x 21 cm)
- Preferred Citation
- Áu revoir a l'art -- Period 394 : autograph manuscript, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American Beat novelist, essayist, and poet. The collection consists of an autograph manuscript (1 leaf) containing Jack Kerouac's notes or journal entry entitled "Áu Revoir a l'Art .... Period 394," dated Nov. 16, 1944. The entry begins "I wrote close to half a million words since 1939, when I first began to write." It goes on to describe his recent literary output, and his thoughts on art and the quest for "self-ultimacy." On the other side of the lined sheet, printed as graph paper, Kerouac has charted a numerical grid for "Periods of My Life," Mar. 12, 1922 - Dec. 31, 1946, noting "Death" as period 432, and "Now" as period 394
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Source of acquisition
Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2018
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American LiteratureStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320
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A photocopy of this document is found in the Jack Kerouac Papers (Berg Coll MSS Kerouac archive) New York Public Library