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A second edition, published in 1971 in cambridge, england, contained additional french translation by henri chopin. He could be considered as one of the great psychonauts were it not for his ambivalent feelings towards psychedelics. Burroughs 1969 gant daniel odier jack kerouac 1970 gant claude pelieu the electronic revolution 1971 the retreat diaries 1976 adembannet diwezhatoch ebarzh the burroughs file. Burroughs introduction when i lived in mexico city at the end of the 1940 s, it was a city of one million people, with clear sparkling air and the sky that special shade of blue that goes so well with circling vultures, blood and sandthe raw menacing pitiless mexican blue. Burroughs 4,736 followers william seward burroughs ii, also known by his pen name william lee. Burroughs knew from a young age both that he was homosexual and that he.
William seward burroughs was a maker of mechanical calculating machines and founder of the american arithmometer company the name was later changed to the burroughs corporation. Before his 1959 breakthrough, naked lunch, an unknown william s. The major anthologies representing work from this period are the burroughs file, the adding machine and exterminator. May, 20 although there is a vast wealth of material pertaining to the magical universe of william s. Burroughs that i could heartily recommend for further reading, i have decided to try and keep things a little streamlined.
However, his vision of a dystopian future, his discourse of repetitions, his stochastic materiality, his critiques of the politics of drugs and surveillance, his foregrounding of what we today call queer theory, his media experiments, his depictions of the posthuman where. Burroughs is generally seen as one of the most important writers of the 20th century. In any case made in the spirit of the electronic revolution of william s burroughs. Burroughs discussing various sources for writing, including dreams, voices external and internal, and cutup, giving examples from his own work. Burroughs wrote junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places.
Burroughs is known as a prominent member of the beat generation, a prolific and peculiar writer, a dope addict, an inspiration to punk bands and performance artists, and a staunch. Burroughs and the wild boys against the language virus. Burroughs the electronic revolution ubuclassics 2005 the electronic revolution. Kirk comments on the impact of burroughss work on the music he made in the late 1970s with stephen mallinder and christopher watson in cabaret voltaire. Acker, kathy 1988, kathy acker interviews william s. Burroughs was born on january 28, 1857 in the state of new york. As socalled cult authors go, william burroughs is perhaps one of the best known of the twentieth. Queer is an early short novel written between 1951 and 1953, published in 1985 by william s.
Biographical notes william seward burroughs iiwas born. He married ida selover in 1879, with whom he would have four children. The archive was organized during two periods of activity. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of it s content suppliers and protected by. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Mar 31, 2017 open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Burroughs papers, 19511972 bulk 19581972 special formats reeltoreel tapes. Burroughs, usa 19141997 the electronic revolution 1970, expanded media editions pdf, 832kb the electronic revolution is an essay collection by william s. Burroughs passed away at the ripe old age of 83 back in august 1997, the media coverage was definitely more in keeping with his status as a countercultural icon than it was for his literary fame or infamy alone. Burroughs corporation selling the computer revolution.
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