Bøger af William S. Burroughs

The diabolical Nova Criminals now include the nightmarish characters of Sammy the Butcher, Iron Claws, Izzy the Push and the Brown Artist, and are poised to wreak untold destruction on the world with their new-found control. Only Inspector Lee of the Nova Police has any chance of stopping them, by dismantling the word and image machine before it's too late. The third book of Burroughs's linguistically prophetic 'cut-up' trilogy - following The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded - Nova Express is a hilarious and Swiftian parody of bureaucracy and the frailty of the human animal.

William Burroughs work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing. On the Beat movement, the importance of the cut-up technique, the press, Scientology, capital punishment, drugs, good and evil, the destruction of nations, Deadly Orgone Radiation and whether violence just in words is violence enough Burroughs insights show why he was one of the most influential writers and one of the sharpest, most startling and strangest minds of his generation.

A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man s face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays out the precepts of the life of DE (Do Easy); conspirators posthumously succeed in blowing up a train full of nerve gas; a mandrill known as the Purple Better One runs for the presidency with brutal results; and the world drifts towards apocalypses of violence, climate and plague. The hallucinatory landscape of William Burroughs compellingly bizarre, fragmented novel is constantly shifting, something sinister always just beneath the surface.

William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters - a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he journeys through South America, writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug, using it to travel through time and space, to derange his senses - the perfect drug for the author of the wild decentred books that followed. Years later, Ginsberg writes back as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps, and the drug worse and more profound than he had imagined.

Being the son of counter-culture author William S. Burroughs is bound to be a trial. After all, the man who frequented lesbian dives and had a fascination with firearms couldn't possibly make that great of a father. Perhaps inevitably, William Jr. (called Billy) referred to himself as "cursed from birth" and in the book of the same name editor David Ohle collects parts of Billy's third and unfinished novel Prakriti Junction, his last journals and poems, and correspondence and conversations to recreate this tortured life. Endowed with the sufferings — but not the patience — of Job, Billy's life was often characterized by tragedy and frustration, although there were also pockets of success and levity. More than just the memoir of a casualty of the Beat Generation, Cursed From Birth provides rare insight in Billy's father, as well as his scene, friends, and times. It also provides an all-too-familiar story of familial difficulties that anyone with difficult parents can understand and appreciate.

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), amerikansk ‘kult’-forfatter, homoseksuel og narkoman, mest kendt for Nøgen frokost samt som vigtig del af beatgenerationen. QUEER er en roman om en rejse ind i den sydamerikanske jungle i jagten på yage, et indiansk rusmiddel.“Queer er en vigtig brik i et forfatterskab, der uden tvivl vil blive stående som et af de vigtigste i amerikansk litteratur i sidste halvdel af det 20. århundrede.” - Christen K. Thomsen i Fyens Stiftstidende.“En iskold tyrker af en bog. Let it roll. Bare læs. Queer er et godt nok sted at begynde, og oversættelsen er fuld af fart ...” - Peter Laugesen i Information.

Imperial Youth Review returns, tackling a very big issue with . . . a VERY big issue. Years in the making, this colossal, cubist perspective on sexuality features not only never-before-seen work by William Burroughs but contributions from Violet le Voit, Annie Sprinkle, Tom Bradley, Jeff Burk, Jennifer Robin, Collette Torres and multitudes more. From space bear sex to a loving reflection on BDSM life, from a portrait of polyamorous divorce to an analysis of midget porn, we have travelled through space and time and beyond the grave to bring you our Giant-sized Sex Issue-the beginning of a new era.

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 into Burroughs' psyche, revealing his struggle with drug addiction, and his confusion over his sexual identity.

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, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.

I løbet af sluttresserne forlod det amerikanske kulturikon William S. Burroughs ideen om en traditionel litteratur til fordel for en eksperimenterende og performativ praksis. Han ville nu male ord og skrive billeder med virkeligheden og hverdagslivet som sit materiale. Dette tog sit afsæt i en form for revolutionær tænkning, der på mange måder har vist sig at være visionær. Med denne udgivelse vil vi på den ene side belyse denne flygtige praksis, der altid har stået i skyggen af romanerne, og på den anden bidrage til en samtidig diskussion omkring kulturel produktion, hverdagsliv og mulighederne for forandring. I lighed med det aldrig fuldt publicerede samarbejde med kunstneren Brion Gysin, The Third Mind (1966), er AKADEMI 23 først og fremmest tænkt som en metodebog. Bogen er baseret på uddrag af The Job, som består af sammendrag af en række interviews med Burroughs foretaget af franskmanden Daniel Odier. Undervejs i processen redigerede Burroughs interviewet og indsatte forskellige tekster de steder, han mente, de ville udvide og udvikle hans svar. Oversætterne Kasper Opstrup og Tobias R. Kirstein har i deres udvalg og oversættelse valgt at lægge vægten på ideerne om kontrol, virus og forandring inden for rammen af et nyt universitet, et akademi, der skal lære os at være både sammen og os selv på en ny måde. Projektet er med til at aktualisere Burroughs' tanker for vores egen umiddelbare fremtid i slutningen af 10erne, hvor vidensøkonomien går hånd i hånd med oplevelsesøkonomien og finansøkonomien, hvor uddannelse er under pres, og hvor der er en stigende interesse i alternative læringsfællesskaber og ændrede adfærdsmønstre.