The American Connection.

A short Documentary featuring Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, W.S. Burroughs, Bukowski and Céline. Full of funny little details ;-) note : sorry folks, YT blocked one lovely minute of my documentary, it’s a shame but that’s how it is. I’ll post the entire video on Odysee very soon, no worry. Wanna tip? Right here : Bibliography: E. Boelens, Céline et la Beat Generation, in : La Revue Célinienne n°2, 1974 E. Brami, Céline, Paris, 2003 G. Brassaï, Henry Miller grandeur nature, Paris, 1975 A. Kaplan, The Céline Effect : A 1992 Survey of Contemporary American Writers, in : Modernism/Modernity vol. 3 n°61, 1996 J. Kerouac, On Céline, facsimile of letter, in : The Paris Review, n°31, Winter-Spring 1964 F. Lecomte, La visite de la Beat Generation, in : Bulletin célinien n°436, décembre 2020 B. Miles, Call Me Burroughs : A Life, London, 2014 T. Morgan, Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs, New York, 2012 C. Rae, W. S. Burroughs and the Cult Of Rock 'N' Roll, Austin, 2019 Y. Sauveur, L’américanisation de la société française, to be published Documentary: Beat Generation, un film de Jean-Jacques Lebel & Xavier Villetard, France, 2014 Youtube: Henry Miller: Jack Kerouac: : The Nova Convention: Other resources on Internet: The Célines’s effect, by Peter McLachlin: The History of Naropa University (former Naropa Institute), where Ginsberg, Corso and Burroughs held their conversation about Céline in 1985: The Allen Ginsberg Project: quotes about Céline: discussion held in 1985: The Bukowski Forum: Photographers : I couldn’t track down all the photographers behind the wonderful images used for this short documentary, only : Pierre Duverger (1920-1992), friend of . Céline Ted Morgan (1932-2023), friend of A. Ginsberg Music : Dizzie Gillespie, Salt Peanuts, 1941 Jim Morrison, End Of The Night (title inspired by Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night), 1965 Allen Ginsberg, Paul McCartney & Philipp Glass, The Ballad of The Skeletons, 1996 . Céline, À nœud coulant, 1936 Sun Ra and his Arkestra, India, 1955