Beat Hotel

The Beat Hotel was a small, run-down hotel at 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur in the Latin Quarter of Paris. It gained fame through the extended 'family' of beat writers and artists who stayed there from the late 1950's to the early 1960's in a ferment of creativity.

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Latin Quarter - Paris - Beat - 1950's - 1960's

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Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky first stayed there in 1957 and were soon joined by William Burroughs and Gregory Corso. It was here that Burroughs completed the text of Naked Lunch and began his lifelong collaboration with Brion Gysin. It was also where Ian Sommerville became Burroughs' 'systems advisor' and lover. Gysin introduced Burroughs to the Cut-up technique and with Sommerville they experimented with a 'dream machine' and audio tape cut-ups. Ginsberg wrote his moving and mature poem Kaddish at the hotel and Corso wrote the Mushroom cloud shaped poem Bomb.

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Allen Ginsberg - Peter Orlovsky - 1957 - William Burroughs - Gregory Corso - Naked Lunch - Brion Gysin - Ian Sommerville - Cut-up technique - Kaddish - Mushroom cloud

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