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Nova Express The Unworthy Vessel by William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
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William Seward Burroughs II February 5 1914 – August 2 1997 Was An American Novelist Essayist Social Critic And Spoken Word Performer. Much Of Burroughs' Work Is Semi-Autobiographical Cut-Up Stories. He Saw All His Writing As A Single Vast Book. He Is Generally Allied With The Beats And While He Was Close Friends With The True Beats Like Allen Ginsberg And Jack Kerouac His Writing Never Fit With The Beatnik Style. His First Couple Of Novels Junkie Or Junky And Queer Were Written In A Style Reminiscent Of Hard-Boiled Detective Novels. As He Became More Comfortable With Expressing Himself Through Writing His "routines" Were Assembled Into His Most Famous Work Naked Lunch Published In 1959. His "cut-Up" Technique Developed Subsequently With Fellow Inventor-Poet Brion Gysin Took Over His Literary Style To Produce A Number Of Lesser-Known Works. With The Publication In 1981 Of The Trilogy Starting With Cities Of The Red Night He Embarked On A Further Development Of Style Aimed At Achieving His Expressed Intent To "write The Great American Novel". Such A Vast Amount Could Be Written About Burroughs' Life And Legacy Perhaps "lives And Legacies" Would Be More Appropriate. His Influences Are Uncountably And Immeasurably Wide-Reaching It Has Been Argued That Without His Tape Cut-Ups We'd Not Have Thought Of Sampling And Therefore We'd Never Have Had Techno. Equally Without His Transgressive Libertarian Shocking Subject Matter We May Never Have Had Punk Or Industrial. In His Later Life He Was Championed And Courted By These Fringe Elements Of Society And Art.
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William Seward Burroughs II February 5 1914 – August 2 1997 Was An American Novelist Essayist Social Critic And Spoken Word Performer. Much Of Burroughs' Work Is Semi-Autobiographical Cut-Up Stories. He Saw All His Writing As A Single Vast Book. He Is Generally Allied With The Beats And While He Was Close Friends With The True Beats Like Allen Ginsberg And Jack Kerouac His Writing Never Fit With The Beatnik Style. His First Couple Of Novels Junkie Or Junky And Queer Were Written In A Style Reminiscent Of Hard-Boiled Detective Novels. As He Became More Comfortable With Expressing Himself Through Writing His "routines" Were Assembled Into His Most Famous Work Naked Lunch Published In 1959. His "cut-Up" Technique Developed Subsequently With Fellow Inventor-Poet Brion Gysin Took Over His Literary Style To Produce A Number Of Lesser-Known Works. With The Publication In 1981 Of The Trilogy Starting With Cities Of The Red Night He Embarked On A Further Development Of Style Aimed At Achieving His Expressed Intent To "write The Great American Novel". Such A Vast Amount Could Be Written About Burroughs' Life And Legacy Perhaps "lives And Legacies" Would Be More Appropriate. His Influences Are Uncountably And Immeasurably Wide-Reaching It Has Been Argued That Without His Tape Cut-Ups We'd Not Have Thought Of Sampling And Therefore We'd Never Have Had Techno. Equally Without His Transgressive Libertarian Shocking Subject Matter We May Never Have Had Punk Or Industrial. In His Later Life He Was Championed And Courted By These Fringe Elements Of Society And Art.
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