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Loading... The adding machine : selected essays (edition 1986)by William S. Burroughs (Author)
Work InformationThe Adding Machine: Selected Essays by William S. Burroughs
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Ah, yes, "The Job", "The Third Mind", &, then, this. Probably my least favorite of the 3 but still great. If it were written by anyone else it wd've automatically gotten 5 stars, but this is Burroughs & in comparison to some others of his own it's a tad less exciting. Just a tad, mind you, just a tad. Perspicacious. ( ) no reviews | add a review
"Sheer pleasure. . . . Wonderfully entertaining."--Chicago Sun-Times Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes. He offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust. He ruminates on science and the often dubious paths into which it seems intent on leading us, whether into outer or inner space. He reviews his reviewers, explains his famous "cut-up" method, and discusses the role coincidence has played in his life and work. As satirist and parodist, William Burroughs has no peer, as these varied works, written over three decades, amply reveal. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)814.54Literature English (North America) American essays 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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