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And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac
CrystalisBooks 0802144349 / 9780802144348 Paperback New
In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and art, obsession and brutality, with scenes and characters drawn from their own lives. Finally published after more than sixty years, this is a captivating read, and incomparable literary artifact, and a window into the lives and art of two of the twentieth century's most influential writers.
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Electronic Revolution / Die Elektronische Revolution William S. Burroughs
Expanded Media 388030002X / 9783880300026 Paperback New
The book is divided into two parts. 1] Part one entitled The Feedback from Watergate to the Garden of Eden[1] invokes Alfred Korzybski’s views characterising man as the time binding machine due to his ability to write. Burroughs sees the significance of a written word as a distinguishing feature of human beings which enables them to transform and convey information to future generations. He proposes the theory of the unrecognised virus present in the language suggesting that the word has not been recognised as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host. 2] The second part Electronic Revolution[2] concerns the power of alphabetic non-pictorial languages to control people. It draws attention to the subversive influence of the word virus on human beings and dangerous possibilities of using human voice as a weapon. Recording words on tape recorders and employing the Cut-up technique (a form of writing frequently employed by Burroughs) can easily lead to the false news broadcasts or garbled political speeches causing confusion and psychic control over individuals.
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Ghost Of Chance William S. Burroughs
Serpent's Tail 1852424575 / 9781852424572 Paperback New
"Ghost of Chance "is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called, 'the only American writer possessed by genius.' While tripping through the author's trademark concerns--drugs, paranoia, and lemurs, this short novel tells an important story about environmental devastation in a way that only Burroughs can.
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Junky William S. Burroughs
Penguin 014104540X / 9780141045405 Paperback New
'Junk is not like alcohol or weed a means to increased enjoyment in life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.' Burrough's cult classic is a raw semi-autobiographical account of drug addiction which outraged America and influenced generations of writers to come. He relates with unflinching realism the highs and lows of dependency: euphoria hallucinations ghostly nocturnal wanderings and strange sexual encounters. Junky is a dark powerful and mesmerizing account of one man's challenge to turn self-destruction into art.
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Last Words William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (Editor)
Grove Press 0802137784 / 9780802137784 Paperback New
Perhaps the last-ever fix for devoted fans of Junky Interzone and Naked Lunch these pages trace the meditations amusements memories and obsessions of the noted Beat author wit actor and substance abuser during his last year of life (1996-1997). Like many other writers' journals this one mixes lengthy plot outlines anecdotes and arguments with much briefer drifting thoughts and images. Burroughs considers his old age with a mix of wry humor scattershot rancor and intimate rue: Yes where are the snows of yesterday. And the speedballs I useta know? Clear throughout is Burroughs's real feeling for cats several of which he kept; the very first page laments the death by car of Calico (Cat was part of me). Another oft-repeated theme is the Evil of the Drug War the War Against Drugs. Burroughs's brief violent fantasies seem sad compensations for his increasing powerlessness. Elsewhere his technique of associations continues to unearth memorably gloomy bizarrerie: January 31 1997 brings a hill of 'snirt' in Dakota where folks can quick-freeze and shatter like icicles when they go out for the mail. 'Snirt' is a thing of the spring. If you make it through the cabin fever to the 'snirt.' Winner take 'snirt.' A final entry resurrects What I feel for my cats present and past then asks Love? What is It? Most natural painkiller what there is. The volume's fragmentary and personal nature will make it precious to all Burroughs devotees; its patches of wit and pathos though real may not be enough to endear it to other readers. Burroughs's friend Grauerholz who edited the volume supplies a compassionate introduction; an appendix glosses references and names. (Feb.)
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Last Words Of Dutch Schultz William S. Burroughs
Arcade Publishing 1559702117 / 9781559702119 Paperback New
Before he was gunned down in the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey, in October 1935, Arthur Flegenheimer, alias Dutch Schultz, was generally considered New York's Number One racketeer. Taken to a hospital following the gangland shooting, he survived for two days. His room was guarded around the clock, and a police stenographer was stationed at his bedside in the hope of learning who his assailant or assailants were. Instead, what was recorded were Dutch's fevered fantasies, stemming from his childhood and youth, as well as his recent past. Taking these "last words" as his starting point, Burroughs has created his own fantasy of Dutch Schultz, casting his fiction in the form of a film script.
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Place Of Dead Roads William S Burroughs
Picador 0312278659 / 9780312278656 Paperback New
A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom." The Place of Dead Roads "is the second novel in the trilogy with "Cities of the Red Night" and" The Western Lands. "
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Place Of Dead Roads William S Burroughs
Picador 0007341938 / 9780007341931 Paperback New
Burroughs' classic, surreal reworking of the myth of the Old West. William Burroughs' surreal fable set in America's Old West features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of smalltown America. With a narrative of fantastical proportions and a rich, dry, growling humour, 'The Place of Dead Roads' continues Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces -- the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs -- with a style utterly unique in 20th century literature.
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Queer William S. Burroughs
Penguin 0140083898 / 9780140083897 Paperback New
Together with junky Queer is the most accessible book Burroughs has written. They are his two first works although Queer was not published until 1985 due to its dealings with homosexuality. These two books are probably those texts where Burroughs is most connected with the Bet Generation even if he is said to have been one o the Founding Fathers for the movement together with Kerouac and Ginsberg. They were written before his cut-up method was created and are quite traditional in their narrative structure. Queer is the sequel to Junky where we hear what happens to William Lee in Mexico. The story deals with Lee trying to get off drugs and on to boys but things do not always turn out that way. However in comparison with Junky we hear very little about drugs and a lot about homosexual acts. All in all a good book with Burroughs telling his stories as only he can do it. If you enjoy his later works this book is an interesting iew of how he wrote before and how many of the same themes are still explicit already here.
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Sidetripping Charles Gatewood, William S Burroughs
Last Gasp 0867194421 / 9780867194425 Paperback New
A first hand account of '60s and '70s counterculture seen through the eyes of pioneering photographer Charles Gatewood and legendary scribe William S. Burroughs. Chronicling the grotesque, surreal, and liberated American underground, Gatewood and Burroughs created a lasting, disturbing, and engaging portrait of this tumultuous period in American culture.
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Soft Machine William S. Burroughs
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press 0802133290 / 9780802133298 Paperback New
William Burroughs was born in St. Louis Missouri in 1914. The son of successful businessman Burroughs studied English literature at Harvard in the 1930s. A dropout thereafter he lived in Mexico Tangier and the UK and for many years was a heroin addict. He began writing in the 1930s but had little success until the early 1950s when he wrote two confessional books Junky (1953) and Queer (written in the 1950s but not published until 1985). These novels were about drug addiction and homosexuality themes that have continued to dominate his work. In many of his books Burroughs experimented with `cut-up` techniques borrowing ideas from all areas of popular culture including films comics Westerns and science fiction to create a powerful message. Much concerned with the abuses of power he uses addiction as an all-embracing metaphor for the ways in which our lives are controlled.
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Yage Letters Redux William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Oliver Harris (Editor)
City Lights 0872864480 / 9780872864481 Paperback New
In January 1953 William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find yage the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg Burroughs composed a narrative of his adventures that later appeared as The Yage Letters. For this edition Oliver Harris has gone back to the original manuscripts and untangled the history of the text telling the fascinating story of its genesis and cultural importance. Also included in this edition are extensive materials never before published by both Burroughs and Ginsberg.
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