Research Catalog

Title

The soft machine. The restored text / William S. Burroughs.

Author

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997

Publication

New York : Grove Press, 2014

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Details

Additional Authors

Harris, Oliver (Oliver C. G.)

Description

liii, 272 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"The Soft Machine is Burroughs' original cut-up novel, first in an experimental trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. A surreal space-age odyssey and a total assault on the powers that turn humans into machines, the book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space where nothing is true and everyting is permitted"--Back cover.

Subject

• Gay men > Fiction
• Homosexuals masculine > Roman
• Science fiction
• Drug abuse > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Black humor
• Cut-ups (Literary form)
• Science fiction
• Fiction

Note

• "Third revised edition published by Grove Press in 2014". --Verso page

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. l-liii).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dead on arrival -- Who am I to be critical? -- Public agent -- Trak trak trak -- Early answer -- Case of the celluloid Kali -- The Mayan caper -- I Sekuin -- Pretend an interest -- Last hints -- Where the awning flaps -- 1920 movies -- Where you belong -- Uranian Willy -- Gongs of violence --Male image in black -- Dead fingers talk -- Cross the wounded galaxies.

ISBN

• 9780802122117 (pbk.)
• 0802122116 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 878079335
• SCSB-12211068

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library