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The Soft Machine: The Restored Text de William S. Burroughs

The Soft Machine: The Restored Text: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor William S. Burroughs Editat de Oliver Harris
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 apr 2014
A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey,The Soft Machineinitiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includesNova ExpressandThe Ticket That Exploded. The book draws 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.

Edited and introduced by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, this new edition clarifies for the first time the extraordinary history ofThe Soft Machine's writing and rewriting, demolishing the myths of Burroughs' chance-based writing methods and demonstrating for a new generation the significance of his greatest experiment.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141189789
ISBN-10: 0141189789
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

William S Burroughs (Author)
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 includeNaked 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.

Oliver Harris (External Editor)
Oliver Harris is professor of American literature at Keele University and the editor ofThe Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959(1993),Junky: the Definitive Text of "Junk"(2003),The Yage Letters Redux(2006), andEverything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs(2008). He has published articles on film noir, the epistolary, and Beat Generation writing and the bookWilliam Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination(2003). He is currently co-editingNaked Lunch@50: Anniversary Essays(2009) and working on a new twenty-fifth anniversary edition ofQueer(forthcoming in 2010).

Recenzii

“The voice in The Soft Machine is talking about time. . . . [It] slips deliberately and frequently, sometimes ironically and sometimes not . . . rattles off elliptical allusions, throws away joke after outrageous joke, shifts gear in mid-sentence, never falters. It is precisely this voice—complex, subtle, allusive—that is the fine thing about The Soft Machine and about Burroughs.”—Joan Didion

“One of the most interesting pieces of radical fiction we have.”—The Nation

“[Burroughs’s] great fictions [show] his superb, hard-edged satirical visions of cancerous and addictive consumerism; his elegiac and poetic invocations of sadness and dislocation; his enormous fertility of ideas and imagery.” —Will Self

“Out of the dirt, the excrement, the couplings, Burroughs makes a disgusting, exciting poetry.”—Sunday Times

“The author, no longer raging in obscurity with his devils, has devised a technique, the Cut Up and Pemutation. . . . Burroughs writes, and cuts, and pastes, and adds, and recuts, repastes, rearranges by hazard.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.”—Jack Kerouac