Naked Lunch, English edition
The Restored Text. With an introduction by J. G. Ballard
(Sprache: Englisch)
Reissued with a new jacket as part of Harper Perennial's classics launch. The anarchic classic of the human psyche.
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Reissued with a new jacket as part of Harper Perennial's classics launch. The anarchic classic of the human psyche.
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The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats, featuring for the first time the restored text, all the accompanying essays, and newly discovered material from the original manuscript. Revitalised with a cool new jacket and an anecdote packed P.S. section. WELCOME TO INTERZONE! Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Check yourself into the hospital where Dr Benway works - but don't expect adrenalin if you need it (the night porter shot it up for kicks). Meet Dr 'Fingers' Schafer, the Lobotomy Kid, and his greatest creation, 'The Complete American De-anxietized Man', a marvel of invasive psychiatry who has been reduced to nothing but a spinal cord. Told by an Ivy League-educated narcotics addict, Naked Lunch juxtaposes two journeys: the narrator's physical progress from America to North Africa, via Mexico, and a terrifying descent into his own altered consciousness. In this "Interzone", loosely based on Burroughs' temporary home Tangier, sex, drugs and murder are the most basic of commodities, and the basest desires have become completely banal. Provocative, influential, morbidly fascinating and mordantly funny, Naked Lunch takes us on an exhilarating ride through the darkest recesses of the human psyche - a ride which stunned the literary world when first published in the repressed 1950s, and is still guaranteed to epater more than a few bourgeois. Over forty years after first publication, Burroughs scholar Barry Miles and Burroughs' longtime editor James Grauerholz have compiled this definitive restored text, correcting numerous errors that have accumulated over the years, and incorporating all of Burroughs' notes and accompanying essays. Most exciting of all, this edition includes an appendix of newly discovered, never before seen material - including alternate drafts from the original manuscript and letters from Burrough's private correspondence.
Autoren-Porträt von William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs (1914-97) studierte englische Literatur, Ethnologie, Archäologie und Medizin in Harvard und Wien. Arbeitete in den USA zeitweise als Privatdetektiv, Kammerjäger, Farmer und Reporter, und verfiel dem Rauschgift. Reisen nach Europa und Südamerika, lange Aufenthalte in Tanger. 1974 zieht er nach New York, 1982 nach Lawrence, Kansas. Für sein Gesamtwerk wurde Burroughs 1975 mit dem 'Literature Award des National Institute of Arts and Letters' geehrt.Barry Miles, geboren 1943 in Cirencester, England, ist einer der profiliertesten englischen Musikjournalisten. In den Sechzigern war er Mitbesitzer der Londoner Indica Gallery, wodurch er viele Stars der Londoner Szene kennen lernte. Er hat unter anderem die Biografien von Paul McCartney, The Beatles, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Frank Zappa, Charles Bukowski und Allen Ginsberg geschrieben.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: William S. Burroughs
- 2005, 289 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,7 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Ed. by Jamrs Grauerholz and Barry Miles
- Herausgegeben: James Grauerholz, Barry Miles
- Verlag: HarperPerennial
- ISBN-10: 0007204442
- ISBN-13: 9780007204441
Sprache:
Englisch
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