The Soft Machine
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802133290 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Naked Lunch, William S. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.. Burroughs revealed his genius
Addiction: an agent of control T. F. Johnson The Soft Machine is Burroughs's definitive work of cut-up and experimental writing. Most of the elements of the book are taken from the same period of writing that produced his first success Naked Lunch and are in many ways a natural continuation of that work. Many familiar characters pop up in The Soft Machine and many of the same themes of homosexuality, drug addiction, death, murder and corruption appear throughout. That being said, The Soft Machine is in many ways different from Naked Lunch. The most apparent is . A book that redefines 'multi-interpretable' "The Soft Machine" the second excerpt from Burroughs' 1000 page manuscript of garbled chaos, written in Tangiers during a big, several year long heroin binge.The origins of this writing are clear in the text Burroughs' obsession with 'junk' is extreme, as is his fixation on orgiastic sex and sexually deviant practices. At least 50% of the book could be considered erotica if it weren't so intermingled with imagery of death and deformation that any aphrodisiac effect is squashed like a bug. This book is unparalleled in. Worth the hemorrhaging conscious In The Soft Machine, Burroughs goes into a `fit' and forces his will on the reader. Your mind is filled with pictures of 1920's movies and dusty postcards.I'll be honest with you; it was not an easy read for me. Early in the book I, for a second or two, pictured a disgruntled, rogue typesetter jumbling up the words and sentences in a way to get back at `the man' by confusing the hapless purchaser of the book. It twists and turns and comes back through the middle and it is intentional. But when you are finished, there
. William Burroughs was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1914. William Burroughs died in 1997. Immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s -- notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg -- he already had an underground reputation before the appearance of his first important book, 'Naked Lunch'
Essential reading.' Observer 'Burroughs' great fictions show his superb, hard-edged satirical visions of cancerous and addictive consumerism; his elegiac and poetic invocations of sadness and dislocation; his enormous fertility of ideas and imagery.' Will Self, Guardian 'What Burroughs has tried to do, here as in other books, is to blend the reality of an addict's experience with his fantasies, and to create from this mixture a world compounded of myth and science fiction in which freedom and order are eternally opposed. Out of the dirt, the excrement, the couplings, Burroughs makes a disgusting, exciting poetry.' Sunday Times . '"The Soft Machine" has its background in the underwater cities of Flash Gordon serials, broken-down towns in South America, faded photos and 1920s films in seedy movie houses