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Thema: William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs
(* 5. Februar 1914; ? 2. August 1997) war ein schwuler Schriftsteller, der der Beat Generation zugerechnet wird.
Seine Homosexualität beschrieb er bereits früh in seinen Tagebüchern, verbarg sie jedoch bis ins Erwachsenenalter vor seiner Umgebung. Nach seinem Studium reiste Burroughs durch Europa, wo er die schwule Subkultur und Künstlerszene vor allem in Österreich kennenlernte. Sein Schwulsein beschrieb er unter anderem im autobiografischen Roman »Queer«.

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William S. Burroughs: The Adding Machine

USA 2013, 224 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Publishers Group West

William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes. He offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, ... Weiterlesen

Barry Miles: Call Me Burroughs

A Life. USA 2015, 718 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, pb., € 29.95
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Twelve

50 years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, »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 ... Weiterlesen

Josh Shoemake: Tangier

A Literary Guide for Travellers. UK/USA 2013, 286 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 29.95
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I.B. Tauris

An edge city, overlooking both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, and the »Interzone«, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries - men and women working out at the edge of literary forms, breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes ... Weiterlesen

William S. Burroughs / Bill Morgan (ed.): Rub Out the Words

Letters 1959 - 1974. UK 2012, 444 pp., brochure, € 18.99
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Penguin UK

William Burroughs' life was often as extreme as his prose. The second volume of his letters documents the time after the notorious publication of »Naked Lunch« in 1959, as he drifted away from the Beats and on towards new experiences in Europe and North Africa. We see the artist and pioneer of the cut-up method, Brion Gysin, gradually replace Ginsberg ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: City Boy

My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s. UK/D/USA/AUS 2010, 297pp., Pb, € 19.95
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When Edmund White left the Midwest after college he had an opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. at Harvard. Instead, he followed a lover to New York City. There he arrives broke and unknown, struggling to express himself as a gay man even as he holds out hope of being »cured«. Present at the Stonewall uprising in 1969, White witnesses the ... Weiterlesen

William S. Burroughs: The Wild Boys

UK 2008, 184 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare ... Weiterlesen

William S. Burroughs: Junky

UK 2008, 166 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, »Junky« is a ... Weiterlesen

William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg: The Yage Letters

UK 2008, 127 pp., brochure, € 9.95
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William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, »Junky«, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called »Yage« which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be »the final fix«. In »The Yage Letters« - a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he journeys through South America, writing to his friend ... Weiterlesen