"And the hippos boiled in their pools" (Eng. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks ) - a novel by American writers Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs . The book was written in 1945, a decade before these two authors became key figures in the Beat Generation , and remained unpublished for many years.
| And hippos boiled in their pools | |
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| And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks | |
| Author | Kerouac, Jack and Burroughs, William Seward |
| Genre | Novel |
| Original language | English |
| Original published | 2008 |
| Translator | Alexey Kruglov |
| Publisher | AST, Astrel |
| Release | 2008 |
| Pages | 224 p. |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-5-17-065576-2, ISBN 978-5-271-28787-9 |
Creation History
Written in the form of a detective novel, the book consists of alternating chapters of each of the authors, writing on behalf of two different characters. Burroughs (like William Lee, a pseudonym that he later uses for his first book, Junkie ) writes on behalf of Will Dennison, while Kerouac (like John Kerouac) takes on the character Mike Rico.
According to Bill Morgan 's The Beat Generation in New York, the novel was based on the assassination of David Cammerer, who was obsessed with Lucien Carr . Carr stabbed Kammerer in a drunken brawl for self-defense, and then threw Kammerer’s body into the Hudson River . Carr later confessed to the crime, first to Burroughs, then to Kerouac, none of whom reported the incident to the police. When Carr eventually surrendered, Burroughs and Kerouac were arrested as accomplices. Kerouac even served time because his father refused to help him out, and Burroughs was bailed out by his family. (Kerouac married Edie Parker while he was in prison, and then she paid a bail for him.)
See also
- Kill your loved ones