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Condition: Very Good This is genuine first edition (precedes US publication). Jacket has very slight signs of age. Book has short ink inscriptions on flyleaf and pages 15 and 16 and pencil inscriptions on index page. Pages browning as normal with book of this age and quality. Very good example of this rare book. Content: Note that there are few gay references in this book. "William Burroughs has explored the seamy side of human existence, exposed the hypocrisy of politics, science and big business and stripped the veneers off the surface respectability of bien-pensant society: his satire is hilariously funny, his sexual fantasies deeply disturbing, his fiction unlike any other twentieth-century writer's. In these essays he reveals himself, his interests, his reading and influences. Burroughs fans will find themselves in the world of his favourite writers from Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway to Somerset Maugham, Graham Greence, Proust and Beckett about whom he has much to say. He speculates as to where science is leading us, about our future explorations of space, genetics and mind control. He reviews his reviewers, describes his cut-ups, the role of coincidence in life and how to become invisible. Material used in his teaching lectures is included, as well as articles written for magazines, political commentary and speculations that turn into illustrative demonstrations of the point he is making." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: William Seward Burroughs II (5 February 1914 – 2 August 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life. A primary member of the Beat Generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected popular culture as well as literature. continued on Wikipedia Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "People ask what would lead me to write a book like Naked Lunch. One is slowly led along to write a book and this looked good, no trouble wit the cast at all and that's half the battle when you can find your characters. The more far-out sex pieces I was just writing for my own amusement. I would put them away in an old attic trunk and leave them for a distant boy to find . . . 'Why Ma this stuff is terrific - and I thought he was just an old book-of-the-month-club corn ball.'" from page 1 Secondhand booksellers |
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