Call Me Burroughs: A Life
Autor Barry Milesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 ian 2015
Fifty
years
ago,
Norman
Mailer
asserted,
"William
Burroughs
is
the
only
American
novelist
living
today
who
may
conceivably
be
possessed
by
genius."
Few
since
have
taken
such
literary
risks,
developed
such
individual
political
or
spiritual
ideas,
or
spanned
such
a
wide
range
of
media.
Burroughs
wrote
novels,
memoirs,
technical
manuals,
and
poetry.
He
painted,
made
collages,
took
thousands
of
photographs,
produced
hundreds
of
hours
of
experimental
recordings,
acted
in
movies,
and
recorded
more
CDs
than
most
rock
bands.
Burroughs
was
the
original
cult
figure
of
the
Beat
Movement,
and
with
the
publication
of
his
novelNaked
Lunch,
which
was
originally
banned
for
obscenity,
he
became
a
guru
to
the
60s
youth
counterculture.
InCALL
ME
BURROUGHS,
biographer
and
Beat
historian
Barry
Miles
presents
the
first
full-length
biography
of
Burroughs
to
be
published
in
a
quarter
century-and
the
first
one
to
chronicle
the
last
decade
of
Burroughs's
life
and
examine
his
long-term
cultural
legacy.
Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself,CALL ME BURROUGHSis a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject.
Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself,CALL ME BURROUGHSis a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781455511938
ISBN-10: 1455511935
Pagini: 736
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 48 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Twelve
ISBN-10: 1455511935
Pagini: 736
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 48 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Twelve
Notă biografică
Barry
Miles
is
the
author
of
many
seminal
books
on
popular
culture,
including
the
authorized
biography
of
Paul
McCartney,Paul
McCartney:
Many
Years
from
Now;Ginsberg:
A
Biography;William
Burroughs:
El
Hombre
Invisible;Jack
Kerouac:
King
of
the
Beats;
andThe
Beat
Hotel:
Ginsberg,
Burroughs,
and
Corso
in
Paris,
1957-1963.
He
also
co-edited
the
Revised
Text
Edition
ofNaked
Lunch.Miles
was
born
in
Cirencester,
England.
Recenzii
"CALL
ME
BURROUGHS
is
riddled
with...
weird
anecdotes
laced
with
gallows
humor,
bizarre
coincidences
and
profane
punch
lines.
It's
a
massive
undertaking
made
complicated
by
Burroughs'
peripatetic
lifestyle
and
rampant
drug
use.
To
say
he
was
a
difficult
man
to
pin
down
is
understatement,
but
Miles
is
up
to
the
task."—LA
Times
"Miles just puts it all on paper with aplomb and deadpan wit, showing how the gross-out surrealism of Burroughs's fiction flowed from the lurid creativity of everyday life."—Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)
"One long, strange, profoundly American literary life. Burroughs's work has had a profound if often oblique influence on the writing of his century and this one. I can scarcely imagine what it would be like to read Barry Miles's biography without being thoroughly familiar with the outline of the narrative. Truly, stranger than fiction."—William Gibson
"CALL ME BURROUGHS takes us deeply inside the magical life of the great writer. Miles's decision to tell the epic story through William Burroughs's search for his 'Ugly Spirit' makes for sensational reading. Brilliant, tragic, controversial, and inspiring, CALL ME BURROUGHS is a beautiful work."—Victor Bockris, author of With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker, Conversations with William Burroughs and Andy Warhol, and Burroughs in the Bunker
"CALL ME BURROUGHS is the most intimate portrait to date of one of the twentieth century's most complicated, troubled, and influential figures. Miles's deep knowledge of the man and the work also provides a cultural history of the scene in Tangiers in the 1950s, the Beat era, and the emerging Punk scene in New York in the 1980s. It is a compelling biography and social history unlike any other."—Ira Silverberg, co-editor of Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
"CALL ME BURROUGHS is full of energy and surprise and is a delight to read. Barry Miles combines his intimate knowledge of Burroughs with the meticulous research of Burroughs's companion James Grauerholz, to produce an extremely accurate, readable, and entertaining biography of one of the most inventive writers of the twentieth century. Reading this extraordinary book is like hanging around with Burroughs himself and is impossible to forget."—Bill Morgan, author of I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg and The Typewriter Is Holy
"By any standard Burroughs's was an unusual life, full of scandal, subversion, and sensitivity hidden behind a cold blue gaze. Miles enriches this 'life of an artist' with decades of dedicated immersion in the work both published and unpublished, digging deep into archival material and manuscripts, incorporating journals of friends and acquaintances. With great authority and verve, he brings up to date the legacy of a true American original who grows, even years after his death, in fascination."—Regina Weinreich, author of Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics and editor of Kerouac's Book of Haikus
"Miles just puts it all on paper with aplomb and deadpan wit, showing how the gross-out surrealism of Burroughs's fiction flowed from the lurid creativity of everyday life."—Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)
"One long, strange, profoundly American literary life. Burroughs's work has had a profound if often oblique influence on the writing of his century and this one. I can scarcely imagine what it would be like to read Barry Miles's biography without being thoroughly familiar with the outline of the narrative. Truly, stranger than fiction."—William Gibson
"CALL ME BURROUGHS takes us deeply inside the magical life of the great writer. Miles's decision to tell the epic story through William Burroughs's search for his 'Ugly Spirit' makes for sensational reading. Brilliant, tragic, controversial, and inspiring, CALL ME BURROUGHS is a beautiful work."—Victor Bockris, author of With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker, Conversations with William Burroughs and Andy Warhol, and Burroughs in the Bunker
"CALL ME BURROUGHS is the most intimate portrait to date of one of the twentieth century's most complicated, troubled, and influential figures. Miles's deep knowledge of the man and the work also provides a cultural history of the scene in Tangiers in the 1950s, the Beat era, and the emerging Punk scene in New York in the 1980s. It is a compelling biography and social history unlike any other."—Ira Silverberg, co-editor of Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
"CALL ME BURROUGHS is full of energy and surprise and is a delight to read. Barry Miles combines his intimate knowledge of Burroughs with the meticulous research of Burroughs's companion James Grauerholz, to produce an extremely accurate, readable, and entertaining biography of one of the most inventive writers of the twentieth century. Reading this extraordinary book is like hanging around with Burroughs himself and is impossible to forget."—Bill Morgan, author of I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg and The Typewriter Is Holy
"By any standard Burroughs's was an unusual life, full of scandal, subversion, and sensitivity hidden behind a cold blue gaze. Miles enriches this 'life of an artist' with decades of dedicated immersion in the work both published and unpublished, digging deep into archival material and manuscripts, incorporating journals of friends and acquaintances. With great authority and verve, he brings up to date the legacy of a true American original who grows, even years after his death, in fascination."—Regina Weinreich, author of Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics and editor of Kerouac's Book of Haikus