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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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Ham On Rye
The cult classic autobiographical coming-of-age modern classic by one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century
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Junky
A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses.
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Lonesome Traveler
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discoveryAs he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré-Coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.'Full of startling and beautiful things ... one sees, hears and feels' Sunday Times
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.
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Queer
25th Anniversary EditionSet in Mexico City during the early fifties, this title follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene.
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Hollywood
Charles Bukowski lays bare Hollywood, revealing the absurdity and egotism behind the glamour
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Junky
Relates the addict's life: from initial heroin bliss to an unabated hunger for the needle, and the horrors of cold turkey and back again.
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Eine Wolke kennt den Weg. Ins Nirgendwo
Rosa von Praunheim ist - "Viele. Filmemacher und Dichter, Dichter und Filmemacher, Dokumentarist, Chronist, Porträtist, Schriftsteller, Erzähler, Verfasser von Theaterstücken" - so beginnt Michael Lentz in seiner Laudatio zur Leipziger Poetikvorlesung im Jahre 2021. Und er erzählt weiter: "Rosa schreibt ... seit mindestens vier Jahren jeden Morgen ein Gedicht." Rosa selbst hat eine wilde Tiefenerfahrung von Dichtung. Bewunderte Schriftsteller wie Jean Cocteau, Tennesse Williams und Federico Garcia Lorca. Interviewte seinen Helden William Seward Burroughs für seinen Film "Underground and Emigrants" und hatte eine Affäre mit Jean Genet: "Dieser alt und kahl, Rosa jung und geil." Diese Spannung zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch die sprachlichen Ausdrucksverrücktheiten eines Rosa von Praunheim. Traf man Rosa von Praunheim zuhause, lagen auf einem Tisch stets die neuesten Bücher, mindestens fünf pro Woche, die er las und empfahl oder veriss. Er war ein aufmerksamer Leser und Beobachter. Immer im jetzt verhaftet. Und in seinen eigenen Gedichten lesen wir davon, was alles in seinem Kopf vorging. Ein wunderbarer Kosmos aus Realität und Surrealität. In Berlin gibt es eine Sammlung "Surreale Welten", die weit davon entfernt ist, den klassischen Surrealismus als abgeschlossene Kunstperiode darzustellen. Statt dessen wird Surrealität als allgemeingültige Kunstdarstellung gezeigt. So ließe sich am besten auch Rosa von Praunheims dichterische Dauersendung verstehen: surreal. Rosas Poetik, ein Zweifel an der Realität.
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William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
'If you simply follow Burroughs through the rock 'n' roll years you'll see him achieve a flickering ubiquity - lurking here, eavesdropping there, photobombing the whole parade. It becomes a kind of alternative history' NEW YORK TIMESReissued with a new Foreword as part of White Rabbit's prestigious Deep Cuts series, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll tells the story of a man Patti Smith described as 'up there with the pope' through the prism of his impact on pop music.William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented - until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that followed in his wake.'Casey Rae's book is a labour of love that offers a map to understanding Burroughs' complex relationship to music and other art forms' CHRIS STEIN, co-founder of BLONDIE
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The Bunker Diaries
The Bunker Diary is Stewart Meyer's account of life in the orbit of William S. Burroughs. He recounts a period of his life in the late 1970s and early 1980s when he hung out at Burroughs' Bunker in NYC, learning to write at the side of one of the 20th century's greats.Meyer passes along Burroughs' advice on writing and on life. He also details the amusing interactions Burroughs had with the likes of Allen Ginsberg and Jacques Stern. We also see up close the antics of Herbert Huncke and Gregory Corso.The Bunker Diaries spills out of the Bunker and onto the streets of NYC, where Meyer is copping for heroin and opium, slinging bags of weed, and all the while trying to run his own typesetting business in a rapidly changing industry. It is a fast-paced dive into a lost world, filled with wit and wisdom.
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William Seward Burroughs
In der artbooks-Reihe des KILLROY media Verlags aus Ludwigsburg erscheint im Frühjahr 2025 William Seward Burroughs. Das Messer im Kopf - was man ganz wörtlich verstehen darf, denn Boris Kerenski hat sich dem berühmten Cut-up-Autoren passenderweise mit Skalpell und Klebestift genähert. Seine analogen Papiers Collés sind bunt, verdichtet, narrativ, skurril und voller Witz. Kerenski ist ein Meister des feinen Schnitts wie auch der formalen Komposition. Darüber hinaus zeigt er sein Talent als Spurenleger, der seine Collagen anreichert mit Anspielungen auf die Kunstgeschichte, auf Burroughs, den hombre invisible aus Tanger und auf dessen bildreiches literarisches Oeuvre.Erweitert werden die Collagen durch Essays von Hans Dieter Huber, Hadayatullah Hübsch, Axel Monte und Jürgen Ploog, die z.T. unveröffentlicht sind bzw. exklusiv erweitert/überarbeitet wurden.
€ 15,00