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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780802133298
Edition: 1St Edition
ISBN: 0802133290
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: 1992-09
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press
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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.
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In The Soft Machine, Burroughs goes into a `fit' and forces his will on the reader. Your mind is filled with pictures of 1920's movies and dusty postcards.
I'll be honest with you; it was not an easy read for me. Early in the book I, for a second or two, pictured a disgruntled, rogue typesetter jumbling up the words and sentences in a way to get back at `the man' by confusing the hapless purchaser of the book. It twists and turns and comes back through the middle and it is intentional. ... Read More
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Gibberish is more like it. I have long been an admirer of the Beats, for artistic as well as cultural reasons. This is absolutely one of the worst books by any Beat,or any other writer,I've ever read. If this is an example of so called experimental,stream of consciousnes writing, then this experiment was a total failure, and a repetetive one at that. Burroughs'frequent references to orgasm via hanging, and orgasm in general, would be boring even if this was a good book. No wonder he is omewhat obscure ... Read More
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"The Soft Machine"... the second excerpt from Burroughs' 1000 page manuscript of garbled chaos, written in Tangiers during a big, several year long heroin binge.
The origins of this writing are clear in the text... Burroughs' obsession with 'junk' is extreme, as is his fixation on orgiastic sex and sexually deviant practices. At least 50% of the book could be considered erotica if it weren't so intermingled with imagery of death and deformation that any aphrodisiac effect is squashed like a ... Read More
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The Soft Machine is Burroughs's definitive work of cut-up and experimental writing. Most of the elements of the book are taken from the same period of writing that produced his first success Naked Lunch and are in many ways a natural continuation of that work. Many familiar characters pop up in The Soft Machine and many of the same themes of homosexuality, drug addiction, death, murder and corruption appear throughout. That being said, The Soft Machine is in many ways different from Naked Lunch. ... Read More
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i read soft machine by WSB by recommendation of one of my best friends. he said WSB and many of the other Beats were off the edge. i watched the movie "Beat" as an amusing insight into a portion of WSB, after reading Soft Machine. Soft Machine, and forgive me for being an ignorant blah-putz, is REALLY difficult to get into. the first couple of chapters are nothing but random rants and raves. it sounds like the man was going for drug cocktails and rectum-stretching in some south american country. i just ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780802133298
Edition: 1St Edition
ISBN: 0802133290
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: 1992-09
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press