BURROUGHS S. WILLIAM

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Συνωμότες σχεδιάζουν να ανατινάξουν ένα τραίνο που μεταφέρει αέριο νεύρων... Στην προσπάθειά του να φέρει ειρήνη στον κόσμο, ένας επιστήμονας απελευθερώνει κατά λάθος ένα μοιραίο ιό... Οι ασθενείς ενός νοσοκομείου ενεργοποιούν μια ακτίνα θανάτου για να εξολοθρεύσουν τους ιατρούς, τις νοσοκόμες και τις «χυδαίες μαγείρισσες»... Ο τέλειος υπηρέτης αποκαλύπτεται ότι είναι ο ύπουλος Δρ Φου Μαντσού... Ένα βιβλίο άγριο και συγχρόνως αστείο, με θέμα τον πόλεμο, το ρατσισμό, τα μεγάλα μονοπώλια, τα ναρκωτικά, την επιστημονική φαντασία και τους εξολ...
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JUNKY
Το Junky, που σήμερα έχει ξεπεράσει στην Ευρώπη και την Αμερική το ένα εκατομμύριο αντίτυπα σε πωλήσεις, είναι το βιβλίο με το οποίο σημείωσε την εμφάνισή της εκείνη η παρέα, που αμέσως μετά τον πόλεμο, ανατάραξε με το ανήσυχο και προκλητικό της πνεύμα τα λιμνάζοντα νερά της λογοτεχνίας. Το οδοιπορικό του Μπάροουζ στον ζοφερό κόσμο της πρέζας αρχίζει, όταν ένας νεαρός κακοποιός , που έμοιαζε με τον Τζορτζ Ραφτ, κλέβει μια μέρα ένα όπλο και ζητά απ' το συγγραφέα να του βρει αγοραστή. " Ίσως. Φερ' το μου" "Α, και κάτι ακόμα..." "Μορφίνη; Θ...
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(P/B) THE WILD BOYS
In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare and open combat with a confused and outmatched army. "The Wild Boys" shows why Burroughs is a writer unlike any other, able to make capt...
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(P/B) INTERZONE
"Interzone" portrays the development of Burroughs's mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. His outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades of oppressive sexual and social conditioning. Burroughs's close observations of humanity - its ugliness and ignorance - invites the reader to dispense with their traditional notions of decorum, and taste the world as he sees it. (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) WORD VIRUS
William Burroughs was one of post-war America's most controversial and influential writers. This is the authoritative, indispensable anthology of his greatest work. Beginning early in William Burroughs' career with 'Junky', 'Queer' and a novel co-authored with Jack Kerouac, 'Word Virus' follows his trajectory through the major novels - including 'Naked Lunch' - to his final book, 'My Education', a series of meditations on his own extraordinary dream life. Biographical prefaces to each chapter, and an introductory essay by Beat historian An...
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(P/B) MY EDUCATION
"My Education" is Burroughs's last novel, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, collected over several decades and as close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary - conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex - to the erotic, bizarre and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves. (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE JOB
William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing. On the Beat movement, the importance of the cut-up technique, the press, Scientology, capital punishment, drugs, good and evil, the destruction of nations, Deadly Orgone Radiation and whether violence just in words is viol...
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(P/B) BURROUGHS LIVE
Burroughs Live gathers all the interviews, both published and unpublished, given by William Burroughs, as well as conversations with well-known writers, artists, and musicians such as Tenessee Williams, Timothy Leary, Patti Smith, Keith Richards, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, and Gregory Corso. The book provides a fascinating account of Burroughs's life as a literary outlaw. Illuminating many aspects of his work and many facets of his mind, it brings out his scathing humor, powerful intelligence, and nightmarish vision. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SOFT MACHINE
Book one in Burroughs' surreal, anarchic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'. Hanged soldiers, North African street urchins, addicted narcotics 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 novel, Burroughs' 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...
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(P/B) THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED
The Burroughs' book which, with 'The Soft Machine' and 'Nova Express', completes the classic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'. 'Earth was under attack, but by whom? The Insect People of Minraud? The Nova Mob? The "White Hunters"? Representatives of Hassan i Sabbah or the White Goddess?' 'Language is the worn coin pressed silently into my hand. Inspector J. Lee of the Nova Police knew them by many names - but he only knew one way to stop them.' 'The only weapon was silence: silence to say goodbye - by silence to say good. "You see, gentlemen, what we call ...
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(P/B) THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS
Burroughs' classic, surreal reworking of the myth of the Old West. William Burroughs' surreal fable set in America's Old West features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of smalltown America. With a narrative of fantastical proportions and a rich, dry, growling humour, 'The Plac...
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(P/B) NAKED LUNCH
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-edu...
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Ο ΤΟΠΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΝΕΚΡΩΝ ΔΡΟΜΩΝ
Ο αρχικός τίτλος του βιβλίου αυτού ήταν Η Οικογένεια Τζόνσον. Η έκφραση "Οικογένεια Τζόνσον" ανήκει στην εποχή που άλλαζε ο αιώνας, και χαρακτήριζε τους ανεξίκακους αλήτες και κλέφτες. Με τον καιρό έφτασε να σημαίνει έναν ολόκληρο κώδικα συμπεριφοράς. Ο Τζόνσον τιμά τις υποχρεώσεις του. Ο λόγος του εκτιμιέται και αξίζει να συνεργαστείς μαζί του. Κοιτάζει πάντοτε τη δουλειά του, δεν είναι αδιάκριτος ούτε φαρισαίος ή πρόξενος φασαριών. Όταν παραστεί ανάγκη θα προσφέρει βοήθεια και ουδέποτε θα μείνει αδιάφορος μπροστά σε κάποιον που πνίγεται ...
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(P/B) SPEED / KENTUCKY HAM

ΤΟ ΣΟΚΑΚΙ ΤΩΝ ΑΝΕΜΟΣΤΡΟΒΙΛΩΝ

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Ο ΡΟΥΣΒΕΛΤ ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΛΕΣ ΩΜΟΤΗΤΕΣ
Νομίζω πως ο "Ρούσβελτ Πρόεδρος" προφητεύει κατά κάποιο τρόπο το Ουότεργκεϊτ. Παρ' όλα αυτά, λίγοι από τους κατηγορούμενους σ' αυτή την υπόθεση μπόρεσαν να επιδείξουν τόσο ξεκάθαρη, απαστράπτουσα αδιαντροπιά. Εμπρός, λοιπόν, ας αναζητήσουμε στον ορίζοντα νέα όρια εξαχρείωσης. Ζούμε πια στον αιώνα του διαστήματος, είμαστε έτοιμοι να απογειωθούμε. Μπορούμε ν' αφήσουμε πίσω μας τη γη, ν' ακολουθήσουμε μια φωταγωγημένη λεωφόρο γνήσιας, απόλυτης αχρειότητας. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(H/B) WORD VIRUS