James Grauerholz Ordre des livres (chronologique)

L'Interzone. Un territoire qui ne figure sur aucune carte, situé quelque part entre New York et Tanger, dédale infini de rues semblable aux méandres du cerveau d'un drogué. Un lieu fantomatique, où se réfugie William Lee après avoir accidentellement tué sa femme. Persuadé d'être un agent secret au centre d'une gigantesque machination, Lee commence à rédiger des rapports pour le compte d'une mystérieuse corporation internationale, communiquant avec elle par l'intermédiaire d'une machine à écrire fort loquace qui se transforme volontiers en cafard... Vertigineuse descente aux enfers de la drogue - de toutes les drogues -, le chef-d'œuvre de William Burroughs est d'une veine à la fois terrifiante, macabre, et d'un comique presque insoutenable.

"Last Words" von Burroughs ist eine "Autobiographie in Bruchstücken", die wichtige Lebensstationen, Begegnungen und Werke thematisiert. Er gilt als Vater der Pop-Literatur und erfand das Cut-up-Verfahren. Das Buch kombiniert Tagebuch, Erinnerungen, Traumsequenzen und politische Kommentare.

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns -- literature, U.S. drug policy, the state of humanity, his love for his cats -- permeate the book. Most significantly, Last Words contains some of the most personal work Burroughs has ever written, a final reckoning with his life and regrets, and his reflections on the deaths of his friends Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. It is a poignant portrait of the man, his life, and his creative process -- one that never quit, not even in the shadow of death.

With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc Burroughs's remarkable career, from his darkly hilarious "routines" to the experimental cut-up novels to Cities of the Red Night and The Cat Inside. Beautifully edited and complemented by James Grauerholz's illuminating biographical essays, Word Virus charts Burroughs's major themes and places the work in the context of the life. It is an excellent tool for the scholar and a delight for the general reader. Throughout a career that spanned half of the twentieth century, William S. Burroughs managed continually to be a visionary among writers. When he died in 1997, the world of letters lost its most elegant outsider.

GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. "Interzone" portrays the development of Burroughs' mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. His outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades of oppressive sexual and social conditioning. Burroughs' close observations of humanity - its ugliness and ignorance - invites the reader to dispense with their traditional notions of decorum, and taste the world as he sees it.