With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac’s never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc of Burroughs’s remarkable career, from his darkly hilarious ‘routines’ to the experimental cut-up novels to Cities of the Red Night and The Cat Inside. Beautifully edited and complemented by James Grauerholz’s illuminating biographical essays, Word Virus charts Burroughs’s major themes and places the work in the context of the life. It is an excellent tool for the scholar and a delight for the general reader. Throughout a career that spanned half of the twentieth century, William S. Burroughs managed continually to be a visionary among writers. When he died in 1997, the world of letters lost its most elegant outsider.
William S. Burroughs
Word Virus [EPUB ebook]
The William S. Burroughs Reader
Word Virus [EPUB ebook]
The William S. Burroughs Reader
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 576 ● ISBN 9780802197184 ● File size 2.6 MB ● Editor James Grauerholz & Ira Silverberg ● Publisher Grove Atlantic ● Published 2007 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2469846 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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