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...

Junkie - Auf der Suche nach Yage - Naked Lunch - Nova Express

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...

"Die elektronische Revolution - Electronic Revolution" ist ein wegweisendes Werk des Autors William S. Burroughs, das die revolutionäre Kraft der Technologie und ihre Auswirkungen auf Gesellschaft und Kultur untersucht. Das Buch ist eine...

Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical...

Offers a mix of autobiographical episodes and Egyptian theology. This novel blends war films and pornography.

""Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader" finally brings the author's actual writing back to the forefront. . . . A fantastic, weird, disturbing, and intriguing tribute to an inimitable American voice".--Mark Luce, "Salon". von...