|
Lucien Carr (March 1, 1925 – January 28, 2005) was a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s; later he worked for many years as an editor for United Press International. ==Early life== Carr was born in New York City; his parents, Marion Howland (née Gratz) and Russell Carr, were both offspring of socially prominent St. Louis families. After his parents separated in 1930, young Lucien and his mother moved back to St. Louis; Carr spent the rest of his childhood there.〔Lawlor, William, ''Beat Culture: Lifestyle, Icons and Impact'', ABC-CLIO, 2005, p. 167〕 At the age of 14, Carr met David Kammerer (b. 1911), a man who would have a profound influence on the course of his life. Kammerer was a teacher of English and a physical education instructor at Washington University in St. Louis. Kammerer was a childhood friend of William S. Burroughs, another scion of St. Louis wealth who knew the Carr family. Burroughs and Kammerer had gone to primary school together, and as young men, they traveled together and explored Paris’s night life: Burroughs said Kammerer “was always very funny, the veritable life of the party, and completely without any middle-class morality.” 〔Lawlor, ''Beat Culture'', p. 46〕 Kammerer met Carr when he was leading a Boy Scout Troop〔Caleb Carr explains this to The Daily Caller, in regards of the truth behind the movie "Kill Your Darlings", 2014, pg. 2〕 of which Carr was a member, and quickly became infatuated with the teenager. Over the next five years, Kammerer pursued Carr, showing up wherever the young man was enrolled at school. Carr would later insist, as would his friends and family, that Kammerer had been hounding Carr sexually with a predatory persistence that would today be considered stalking.〔Adams, Frank, "Columbia Student Kills Friend and Sinks Body in Hudson River," ''The New York Times'', August 17, 1944〕 Whether Kammerer’s attentions were frightening or flattering to the younger man (or both) is now a matter of some debate among those who chronicle the history of the Beat Generation.〔For comparison, see the differences in interpretation between William Lawlor in ''Beat Culture'' and James Campbell in ''This is the Beat Generation'', and compare to Eric Homberger’s comments in "Lucien Carr: Fallen Angel of the Beat Poets”〕 What is not in dispute is that Carr moved quickly from school to school: from the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, to the University of Chicago, and that Kammerer followed him to each one.〔Campbell, James, ''This is the Beat Generation'', University of California Press, London, 1999, pp. 10–12〕 The two of them socialized on occasion. Carr always insisted, and Burroughs believed, that he never had sex with Kammerer; Jack Kerouac biographer Dennis McNally wrote that Kammerer "was a Doppelgänger whose sexual desires Lucien would not gratify; their connection was an intertwined mass of frustration that hinted ominously of trouble."〔McNally, Dennis, ''Desolate Angel'', Da Capo Press edition, 2003, p. 67〕 Carr’s University of Chicago career ended quickly and badly, with an episode that concluded with the young man putting his head into a gas oven. He explained away this act as a “work of art,”〔Campbell, ''This is the Beat Generation'', p. 12〕 but the apparent suicide attempt, which Carr’s family believed was catalyzed by Kammerer, led to a two-week stay in the psychiatric ward at Cook County hospital.〔Lawlor, ''Beat Culture'', p. 167〕 Carr’s mother, who had by this time moved to New York City, brought her son there and enrolled him at Columbia University, close to her own home. If Marion Carr was seeking to protect her son from David Kammerer, she did not succeed. Kammerer soon quit his job and followed Carr to New York, moving into an apartment on Morton Street in the West Village.〔Campbell, ''This is the Beat Generation'', p. 13〕 William Burroughs also moved to New York, to an apartment a block away from Kammerer. The two older men remained friends. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucien Carr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|