The Wild Boys von Burroughs, William S.

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque...

Features letters that cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the "Beat Generation". Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, this title includes letters that provide a glimpse...

Dead Fingers Talk von Burroughs, William S.

Relates the addict's life: from initial heroin bliss to an unabated hunger for the needle, and the horrors of cold turkey and back again. von Burroughs, William S.

The most ferociously political and prophetic book of Burroughs's "cut-up" trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space the better to see our burning planet and the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As...

A total assault on the powers that turn humans into machines by writing and fixing our life scripts, Burroughs' original "cut-up” book was itself rewritten in three different forms. This new edition of The Soft Machine clarifies for the...

William S. Burroughs' Werke "Junkie", "Auf der Suche nach Yage", "Naked Lunch" und "Nova Express" sind bedeutende Beiträge zur Beat-Literatur und experimentellen Erzählweise. 1. **Junkie**: In diesem semi-autobiografischen Roman...

The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style,...

Eine Sensation: Die späteren Beat-Begründer William S. Burroughs und Jack Kerouac schrieben als junge Männer in New York gemeinsam einen Roman, der auch in den USA jahrzehntelang unveröffentlicht blieb. Er handelt von einem Mord, der in...

Fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. This book reveals how Nova Express was cut from a wealth of typescripts to create startling new...

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...