Nova Express: The Restored Text - Couverture souple

Burroughs, William S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141396067 ISBN 13 : 9780141396064

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, William Burroughs deploys his cut-up methods to make a visionary demand that we take back the world that has been stolen from us. Edited and introduced by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, this new edition reveals how Nova Express was cut from an extraordinary wealth of typescripts to create startling new forms of poetic possibility.The third book of Burroughs' 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left the United States in 1950, and lived in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris and London. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, and Queer.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0141396067
• ISBN 13: 9780141396064
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320