The Soft Machine
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802133290 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Burroughs revealed his genius. In Naked Lunch, William S. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo
William Burroughs died in 1997. Immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s -- notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg -- he already had an underground reputation before the appearance of his first important book, 'Naked Lunch'. William Burroughs was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1914.
Out of the dirt, the excrement, the couplings, Burroughs makes a disgusting, exciting poetry.' Sunday Times . '"The Soft Machine" has its background in the underwater cities of Flash Gordon serials, broken-down towns in South America, faded photos and 1920s films in seedy movie houses. Essential reading.' Observer 'Burroughs' 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, Guardian 'What Burroughs has tried to do, here as in other books, is to blend the reality of an addict's experience with his fantasies, and to create from this mixture a world compounded of myth and science fiction in which freedom and order are eternally opposed
Addiction: an agent of control T. F. Johnson The Soft Machine is Burroughs's definitive work of cut-up and experimental writing. Most of the elements of the book are taken from the same period of writing that produced his first success Naked Lunch and are in many ways a natural continuation of that work. Many fami. A book that redefines 'multi-interpretable' "The Soft Machine" the second excerpt from Burroughs' 1000 page manuscript of garbled chaos, written in Tangiers during a big, several year long heroin binge.The origins of this writing are clear in the text Burroughs' obsession with 'junk' is extreme, as is his fixatio. "Worth the hemorrhaging conscious" according to The Reverend. In The Soft Machine, Burroughs goes into a `fit' and forces his will on the reader. Your mind is filled with pictures of 1920's movies and dusty postcards.I'll be honest with you; it was not an easy read for me. Early in the book I, for a second or two, pictured a disgr