A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger mans face. A primary figure of the beat generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative. The exterminator by william burroughs, signed abebooks. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of it s content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. First of all this is a nowadays rarely seen cutup collaboration between brion gysin and william s. February 5, 1914 august 2, 1997 was an american writer and visual artist. The book, originally published under the pseudonym william lee, was distributed by ace books, a publishing house that targeted new york city subway riders. Jan 12, 2017 from let me hang you 2016 bass king khan erhu eyvind kang guitar bill frisell keyboards wayne horvitz sampler, turntables hal willner voice, words william s. A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man s face. Publishers brown cloth, with a cockroach illustration to the bottom right corner of the front board in black. A fragmented novel of strange vignettes, loosely incorporating the theme of the exterminator and his grim trade as its focus, the book reads like a hallucinatory nightmare version of the sunday comics from an unseen world better left undiscovered. With the publication of naked lunch in 1959, william burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age.
A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious dr. Burroughs was born on february 5, 1914 in st louis. The hallucinatory landscape of william burroughs compellingly bizarre, fragmented novel is constantly shifting, something sinister always just beneath pdf the surface. He was often a rascal, notorious for his addiction to heroin, and the shooting of his wife at a party in mexico the socalled william tell incident. Beginning with his very early writing including a chapter from his and jack kerouacs neverbeforeseen collaborative novel, word virus follows the arc of burroughss remarkable career, from his darkly hilarious routines to the experimental cutup. Mar 17, 2020 exterminator burroughs pdf jed appraises the exterminator, a key work that presents burroughs at the dawn of his most radically experimental period. It is not to be confused with the exterminator, another collection of stories burroughs published in 1960 in collaboration with brion gysin. Louis, missouri, grandson and namesake of the inventor of the burroughs adding machine. In one of the earliest booklength critical studies of wsb s work, the excellent william burroughs. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. A sharp, tight copy with previous owners name on the front free endpaper remaining discreet. Burroughs, not to be confused with the later burroughs publication exterminator. Familiar albeit new is the lemon kid who puts the whammy on showbiz folk. Burroughs and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Another compendium of scifi, horrorerotica, and general culturesnuffing by america s richest exjunkie. Jed appraises the exterminator, a key work that presents burroughs at the dawn of his most radically experimental period. Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. In one of the earliest booklength critical studies of wsbs work, the excellent william burroughs. Burroughs that, in my opinion, comes close to the absolute genius of naked lunch. Burroughs reading available as a free pdf download. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. His many books include naked lunch, queer, exterminator.
Burroughs 191497 was born in the midwest, and graduated from harvard with. Burroughs broke into the literary scene with junky sometimes also called junkie, a candid, semiautobiographical account of an unredeemed drug addict. It s safe to say that the book wouldnt have seen the light of day if allen ginsberg hadnt taken burroughs under his wing and edited the manuscript. If id claimed to be half jewish i would be here for free. February 5, 1914 august 2, 1997 was an american novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. No novelist has demonstrated less regard than burroughs for. The algebra of need, eric mottram writes that exterminator. Burroughs reads his first novel, junky open culture. Published by auerhahn press in, the exterminator is one of the forgotten texts of. Six years before he published his breakthrough novel, naked lunch 1959, william s. The two men enjoyed a long friendship and created art pieces, many of which were shown in the 1980s and 1990s at casa sin nombre, lowes art gallery in santa fe, new mexico. Burroughs was a primary figure of the beat generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature.
Afterthoughts on a deposition naked lunchwilliam s. Now, for example, if i wanted to make a cutup of this picking up a copy of the nation, there are many ways i could do it. Burroughs, james grauerholz on free shipping on qualifying offers. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short. Burroughs imagination, memories and mind is a truly unique experience. Sep 01, 2019 jed appraises the exterminator, a key work that presents burroughs at the dawn of his most radically experimental period. Mar 31, 2017 author of naked lunch, junkie, the ticket that exploded, nova express, naked lunch, the exterminator, the wild boys, the soft machine. Burroughs 191497 was born in the midwest, and graduated from harvard with an art degree in 1936. Another compendium of scifi, horrorerotica, and general culturesnuffing by americas richest exjunkie.
It has been reprinted many times since and is the work still in print today. In work and in life burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern america. A brief, burly account by an exterminator of a ninemonth stint at the trade, it demonstrates burroughs s extraordinary ear for vernacular and creates, as its narrator visits the hidden corners, the basements and bottoms of things, where an exterminator presumably is always needed, a sense of hunkering menace, about to be enlarged, of dangerous. Beginning with his very early writing including a chapter from his and jack kerouac s neverbeforeseen collaborative novel, word virus follows the arc of burroughs s remarkable career, from his darkly hilarious routines to the experimental cutup novels to cities.
Burroughs chronology february 5, 1914 born william seward burroughs, in st. Road to interzone, a bibliography of burroughs reading, is one of the indispensable reference works on. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a druguser, burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. Pdf this is a twentypage brochure for an art museum exhibition about brion gysins works of.
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