Bøger af William S. Burroughs

Inspector Lee and the Nova Police have been forced to engage the Nova Mob in one final battle for the planet. This is Burroughs's nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of Johnny Yen's chicken-hypnotizing and green Venusian-boy-girls, of ad men and conmen whose destructive language has spread like an incurable disease; a virus and parasite that takes over every human body. One of Burroughs's most approachable works, The Ticket That Exploded is the climax of his innovative 'cut-up' Nova trilogy - following The Soft Machine and Nova Express - and is an enthralling and frightening image of the future.

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.

A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs's final novel is poignant and melancholic. Blending war films and pornography, and referencing Kafka and Mailer, The Western Lands confirms his status as one of America's greatest writers. The final novel of the trilogy containing Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads, this is a profound meditation on morality, loneliness, life and death.

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilogy continued in The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands, William Burroughs sharply satirizes modern society in a poetic and shocking story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure.

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.

My Education is Burroughs's last novel, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, collected over several decades and as close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary - conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex - to the erotic, bizarre and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves.

Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters gradually deepen in substance and style. Burroughs's letters show the development of both the man and the writer, vividly documenting his (often turbulent) personal and cultural history. The collection provides a key to opening up and contextualizing Burroughs's fiction, but more than that it shows how letter-writing was itself integral to his life and creative process.

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.