''Will be read with the same shock of terror and pleasure in a hundred years'' time'' Angela Carter A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs''s final novel is poignant and melancholic. Blending war films and pornography, and referencing Kafka and Mailer, The Western Lands confirms his status as one of America''s greatest writers. The final novel of the trilogy containing Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads, this is a profound meditation on morality, loneliness, life and death.
In una sterminata suburra, che Burroughs avrebbe poi definito "Interzona", e che qui va da Citta del Messico, capitale mondiale del delitto, a Panama, Lee, alter ego dello scrittore, tesse la sua amorosa tela intorno a Allerton, un giovane ambiguo, indifferente come un animale. Per risolvere le sue ossesioni mortifere e sessuali parte col compagno renitente alla ricerca dello Yage, droga assoluta, capace di dare il controllo totale sui cervelli, e dunque concupita da Russia e Stati Uniti, e da ogni amante.
The anarchic, phenomenally strong-sellling classic from the godfather of the Beats. Welcome to Interzone! Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Check yourself into the hospital where Dr Benway works - but don't expect adrenalin if you need it (the night porter shot it up for kicks). Meet Dr 'Fingers' Schafer, the Lobotomy Kid, and his greatest creation, 'The Complete American De-anxietized Man', a marvel of invasive psychiatry who has been reduced to nothing but a spinal cord. Told by an Ivy League-educated narcotics addict, 'Naked Lunch' juxtaposes two journeys: the narrator's physical progress from America to North Africa, via Mexico, and a terrifying descent into his own altered consciousness. In this 'Interzone', loosely based on Burroughs' temporary home of Tangier, sex, drugs and murder are the most basic of commodities, and the basest desires have become completely banal. Provocative, influential, morbidly fascinating and mordantly funny, 'Naked Lunch' takes us on an exhilarating ride through the darkest recesses of the human psyche - a ride which stunned the literary world when first published in the 1950s, and is still guaranteed to shock. This edition uses the definitive, restored text, compiled by Burroughs scholar Barry Miles and Burroughs' longtime editor James Grauerholz. It incorporates all of Burroughs' notes and accompanying essays, as well as recently discovered alternate drafts from the original manuscript and letters from Burroughs' private correspondence.
¿Qué es esto?Un tratado de cine, una novela, un guión cinematográfico, un collage aleatorio de fotogramas.¿De qué trata?Del colapso de la sociedad occidental a causa de una gestión corrupta de la Sanidad y del florecimiento de una medicina underground capaz de puentear la burocracia y a las compañias farmaceuticas.¿Esta basada la pelicula de Ridley Scott en este libro?No, pero Scott tomo prestado el titulo para su filme ciberpunk Blade Runner. William S. Burroughs aparece en los creditos de agradecimientos al final de la pelicula.¿Que es entonces un Blade Runner para Burroughs?Un distribuidor clandestino de farmacos, drogas y equipamientos medicos.¿En que epoca transcurre la accion?El libro propone un viaje fragmentario por el tiempo entre 1914 y 2014.¿Y la ambientacion?Una Nueva York en ruinas, tuneles de metro inundados y convertidos en canales, barcazas, alimañas en las alcantarillas, perros salvajes por las calles, yonquis, pandillas, el nacimiento de una nueva era en la que ademas el sur de Estados Unidos se ha transformado en una descomunal leproseria.¿El estilo?Cut up en su maxima expresion.¿Los personajes?Cambian de rostro como en un sueño, Billy, el Blade Runner, alter ego intertextual del autor, Roberts, su amante, el medico, el virus B-23. Este libro podria ser la coda de la trilogia compuesta por iudades de la Noche Roja, El Lugar de los Caminos Muertos y Tierras del Occidente, al tiempo que toma en prestamo personajes de la novela de Alan E. Nourse, The Bladerunner¿El target?Burroughs da por sentada tu inteligencia, vas a necesitar hacer uso de ella para no caer en sus trampas y captar su finisimo humor de dandi y visionario mas alla de toda convencion.
Drawing heavily on Egyptian mythology, this visionary novel follows Joe the Dead, Kim Carsons, Neferti, Hassan i Sabbah, and the Old Man of the Mountains on their hazardous pilgrimage toward immortal
