Soft Machine - Softcover

Burroughs, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802133290 ISBN 13: 9780802133298

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994

Synopsis

<div>In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. 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.</div>

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Title: The Soft Machine <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: WilliamS.Burroughs <>Publisher: GrovePress

Review

"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

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802133290
• ISBN 13: 9780802133298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184