"The voice in "The Soft Machine" is talking about time. . . . [It] slips deliberately and frequently, sometimes ironically and sometimes not . . . rattles off elliptical allusions, throws away joke after outrageous joke, shifts gear in mid-sentence, never falters. It is precisely this voice--complex, subtle, allusive--that is the fine thing about "The Soft Machine" and about Burroughs."--Joan Didion
"One of the most interesting pieces of radical fiction we have."--"The Nation"
"[Burroughs's] 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
"Out of the dirt, the excrement, the couplings, Burroughs makes a disgusting, exciting poetry."--"Sunday Times"
"The author, no longer raging in obscurity with his devils, has devised a technique, the Cut Up and Pemutation. . . . Burroughs writes, and cuts, and pastes, and adds, and recuts, repastes, rearranges by hazard."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift."--Jack Kerouac
The voice in "The Soft Machine" is talking about time. . . . [It] slips deliberately and frequently, sometimes ironically and sometimes not . . . rattles off elliptical allusions, throws away joke after outrageous joke, shifts gear in mid-sentence, never falters. It is precisely this voicecomplex, subtle, allusivethat is the fine thing about "The Soft Machine" and about Burroughs. Joan Didion
One of the most interesting pieces of radical fiction we have. "The Nation"
[Burroughs s] 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
Out of the dirt, the excrement, the couplings, Burroughs makes a disgusting, exciting poetry. "Sunday Times"
The author, no longer raging in obscurity with his devils, has devised a technique, the Cut Up and Pemutation. . . . Burroughs writes, and cuts, and pastes, and adds, and recuts, repastes, rearranges by hazard. "The New York Times Book Review"
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. Jack Kerouac
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"The voice in
The Soft Machine is talking about time. . . . [It] slips deliberately and frequently, sometimes ironically and sometimes not . . . rattles off elliptical allusions, throws away joke after outrageous joke, shifts gear in mid-sentence, never falters. It is precisely this voice--complex, subtle, allusive--that is the fine thing about
The Soft Machine and about Burroughs."--Joan Didion
"One of the most interesting pieces of radical fiction we have."--
The Nation "[Burroughs's] 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
"Out of the dirt, the excrement, the couplings, Burroughs makes a disgusting, exciting poetry."--
Sunday Times "The author, no longer raging in obscurity with his devils, has devised a technique, the Cut Up and Pemutation. . . . Burroughs writes, and cuts, and pastes, and adds, and recuts, repastes, rearranges by hazard."--
The New York Times Book Review "Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift."--Jack Kerouac
Hanged soldiers, North African street urchins, addicted narcotic agents, Spanish rent boys, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the mythology of history or the laboratories of science – Burroughs is truly the Hieronymous Bosch of our time. In this surreal, savage and brilliantly funny sequel to Naked Lunch, Burroughs's famous 'cut-up' technique, the slicing and random folding in of words, was fully developed, transforming the narrative into an extraordinary, unequalled new form of prose poetry.