The Soft Machine: The Restored Text: 1 (Nova Trilogy)

Burroughs, William S.

ISBN 10: 1504714342 ISBN 13: 9781504714341

Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs begins an adventure that will take us into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.A total assault on the powers that turn humans into machines by writing and fixing our life scripts, Burroughs' original "cut-up" book was itself rewritten in three different forms. This new edition of The Soft Machine clarifies for the first time the extraordinary history of its writing and rewriting, demolishes the myths of his chance-based writing methods, and demonstrates for a new generation the significance of Burroughs' greatest experiment.

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William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American author, painter, and spoken-word performer who has had a wide-ranging influence on American culture. Jack Kerouac called him the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift." Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius." A postmodernist and a key figure of the beat generation, he focused his art on a relentless subversion of the moral, political, and economic conventions of modern American society, as reflected in his often darkly humorous and sardonic satire. He wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six short-story collections, and four collections of essays. No fewer than five books of his interviews and correspondence have been published. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians and made many appearances in films. He was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983 and in the following year was appointed to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Oliver Harris is a British academic and professor of American literature at Keele University in Staffordshire, UK. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including eight editions of works by William S. Burroughs:

Ramiz Monsef has spent several seasons as a member of Oregon Shakespeare Festival's acting company, and he is the playwright of OSF's 2013 production The Unfortunates. He has also appeared on stage in New York and in numerous regional productions.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1504714342
• ISBN 13: 9781504714341
• Einband: CD de audio
• Herausgeber: Harris Oliver
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