Which 1972 Jack Kerouac novel was published posthumously after his death?

Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Cody was published posthumously in 1972.

Kerouac wrote much of Visions of Cody in the late 1950s, drawing on his friendship with Neal Cassady. The book combines prose, conversation, transcription, and experimental passages in an attempt to capture the rhythms of speech and the movement of memory. Cassady appears through the fictionalized figure Cody Pomeray.

The novel extends the world of On the Road but is less conventionally structured. Kerouac incorporated recordings and long conversational sections, making the book an especially direct example of his interest in spontaneous prose and jazz-like writing rhythms.

Kerouac died in 1969, so the book appeared three years later. It is sometimes confused with Big Sur, which was published during his lifetime in 1962, or with Doctor Sax, published in 1959. Visions of Cody’s posthumous publication helped establish it as a major experimental work in his bibliography.