 Here, as with most of his French writings, Kerouac writes with little regard for grammar or spelling, often relying on phonetics in order to render an authentic reproduction of the French-Canadian vernacular.Even though this work has the same title as one of his best known English novels, it is the original French version of an incomplete translation that would later become "Old Bull in the Bowery" (now published in "The Unknown Kerouac" from the Library of America).