The Burroughs File
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Burroughs File
By (Author) William S. Burroughs
City Lights Books
City Lights Books
1st January 2001
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
813.54
Physical Properties
Paperback
227
Width 138mm, Height 204mm, Spine 15mm
284g
Description
A collection of writings by the sardonic William Burroughs, author of "Naked Lunch". These malefic and mordant reports on life are mostly gathered from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from "White Subway", "Cobblestone Gardens" and "The Retreat Diaries", this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his "insurrectionary sense of America's underside". Also included are essays on Burroughs by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles, and facsimile pages from the cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century: "The Book of Hours", "John Brady's Book" and "The Old Farmer's Almanac".
Reviews
" his Swiftian vision of a processed, prepackaged life, of a kind of electrochemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror."Playboy
"Burroughs may be our only writer whose socio-political apacalyptica transcend both paranoia and triviality; his imagination is superb, his ear savagely satiric."Kirkus Reviews
"Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift."Jack Kerouac
Author Bio
William Burroughs (1915-1997) is widely reconized as one of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include: Junky, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, and Cities of the Red Night.
