He boasted of being the last representative of bohemianism in New York. “Everyone else got lost on the way,” he explained. Some are in the cemetery, others with the mad, and those who stay work in advertising. “The one who spoke thus in 1942 was Joe Gould, a magnificent tramp, permanently tapped by what he called his” three torments “:” no roof, nothing to eat and repeated hangovers. “. And the one who “gives birth”, who will have succeeded twice (in 1942 therefore, then in a longer version in 1964) by giving both journalistic and literary form to Joe Gould’s grueling logorrhea, is Joseph Mitchell , writer-reporter for the legendary magazine The New Yorker.
Joe Gould was originally from a wealthy family, father and grandfather doctors in the suburbs of …
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