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Naked Lunch
Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most shocking novels ever written, Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark, now in a restored edition incorporating Burroughs' notes on the text, alternate drafts and outtakes from the original.'A masterpiece. A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying, and savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination and fierce, exact satire' Newsweek 'Naked Lunch is a banquet you will never forget' J. G. Ballard
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Junky
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, Junky is a field report (by a writer trained in anthropology at Harvard) from the American post-war drug underground. A cult classic, it has influenced generations of writers with its raw, sparse and unapologetic tone. This definitive edition painstakingly recreates the author's original text word for word.
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The Finger
William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.
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Queer. 25th Anniversary Edition
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.
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Queer
“A major work, Burroughs’s heart laid bare, the origin of his writing”—Allen Ginsberg The definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, now adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is a haunting tale of possession and exorcism. Both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, it is both Burroughs’s only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee, the protagonist of Burroughs’s debut novel Junky, a man afflicted with acute heroin withdrawal and romantic yearnings for Eugene Allerton. As Lee breaks down over the course of his hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest. Now a cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, this edition of Queer features a contextualizing introduction by the eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris.
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The Ticket That Exploded
The Restored TextAn outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, this book is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destruction.
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The Soft Machine
The Restored TextDraws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising powers of planet earth that have turned us all into machines.
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E gli ippopotami si sono lessati nelle loro vasche
13 agosto 1944: il giovane Lucien Carr, per difendersi dalle avances dell'amico David Kammerer, lo ammazza e ne getta il corpo nelle acque dello Hudson. Due altri suoi amici, William Burroughs e Jack Kerouac, vengono arrestati per non aver denunciato l'omicidio. Forse anche per elaborare a modo loro l'accaduto, i due scrittori ne tracciano in seguito un resoconto a quattro mani iperrealistico e visionario, dissepolto solo in anni recenti. Raccontando a capitoli alternati, Burroughs e Kerouac assumono il punto di vista di due personaggi-narratori: Burroughs quello di Will Dennison, barista originario del Nevada, sempre preceduto dalla sua "ombra di un metro e novanta", Kerouac quello del marinaio Mike Ryko, "un finlandese diciannovenne dai capelli rossi". Attraverso il loro sguardo e intorno ai protagonisti del tragico fatto di cronaca vediamo così delinearsi una folta compagnia anarco-utopista e sgangherata, euforica e malinconica, che trascorre giorni e notti bevendo e fumando in pub luminescenti, leggendo Faulkner e sognando di raggiungere Parigi. Sullo sfondo, una New York caotica, atterrita e aggressiva, una metropoli di fine guerra in cui il caos visivo è tutt'uno con quello acustico, con le radio che trasmettono le note della Prima Sinfonia di Brahms o il reportage concitato di un giornalista su un circo in fiamme dove "gli ippopotami si sono lessati nelle loro vasche". Con una nota di James W. Grauerholz
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E gli ippopotami si sono lessati nelle loro vasche
13 agosto 1944: il giovane Lucien Carr, per difendersi dalle avances dell'amico David Kammerer, lo ammazza e ne getta il corpo nelle acque dello Hudson. Due altri suoi amici, William Burroughs e Jack Kerouac, vengono arrestati per non aver denunciato l'omicidio. Forse anche per elaborare a modo loro l'accaduto, i due scrittori ne tracciano in seguito un resoconto a quattro mani iperrealistico e visionario, dissepolto solo in anni recenti. Raccontando a capitoli alternati, Burroughs e Kerouac assumono il punto di vista di due personaggi-narratori: Burroughs quello di Will Dennison, barista originario del Nevada, sempre preceduto dalla sua "ombra di un metro e novanta", Kerouac quello del marinaio Mike Ryko, "un finlandese diciannovenne dai capelli rossi". Attraverso il loro sguardo e intorno ai protagonisti del tragico fatto di cronaca vediamo così delinearsi una folta compagnia anarco-utopista e sgangherata, euforica e malinconica, che trascorre giorni e notti bevendo e fumando in pub luminescenti, leggendo Faulkner e sognando di raggiungere Parigi. Sullo sfondo, una New York caotica, atterrita e aggressiva, una metropoli di fine guerra in cui il caos visivo è tutt'uno con quello acustico, con le radio che trasmettono le note della Prima Sinfonia di Brahms o il reportage concitato di un giornalista su un circo in fiamme dove "gli ippopotami si sono lessati nelle loro vasche".
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Und die Nilpferde kochten in ihren Becken
Das Gemeinschaftswerk von Burroughs und Kerouac: eine Entdeckung! Ein Mord im engsten Freundeskreis: Am 14. August 1944 erdolcht Lucien Carr seinen Freund David Kammerer mit einem Fahrtenmesser und versenkt den Körper im Hudson River. Am nächsten Tag erscheint er in blutbefleckter Kleidung bei seinen Freunden - den späteren Beat-Begründern William S. Burroughs und Jack Kerouac. Die beiden jungen Männer verarbeiteten diese wahre Begebenheit, indem sie die Ereignisse dieses Sommers zur Grundlage eines gemeinsamen Romans machten. Das Ergebnis: eine temporeiche, packende Geschichte und ein nun endlich gehobener Schatz der Literaturgeschichte.«Ein literarischer Bubenstreich und ein Schlüsselroman der Beat Generation zugleich.» SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
This is a hardboiled crime novel, and a true story. In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice - neither had told the police.
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Naked Lunch
The Restored Text€ 21,95