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'A whirlwind valedictory of Burroughs' own unconscious. An intensely personal book' The New York Times Book Review
In My Education, William Burroughs possessor of one of the sharpest, strangest minds in all of fiction, the writer of visceral, nightmarish prose gives an autobiography of his singular subconscious. In dreams he travels to the Land of the Dead, mourns and resurrects lost friends, is sentenced to be hanged and walks on water he dreams of drugs, and sex, and travelling, while places and creatures move both between his books and his sleep.
Exploring and embodying Burroughs' provocative ideas on writing, painting, consciousness and creativity, My Education is intense, vivid, wry and laconic and a revealing journey into the mind of a great writer.
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| ISBN 13: | 9780141189895 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Dimensions: | 198 x 128mm |
| Released: | 01/10/2009 |
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William Seward Burroughs, (February 5 1914 August 2 1997) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major post-modernist author who affected popular culture as well as literature. He is considered to be one of the most culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century.
Burroughs wrote 18 novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. Burroughs also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films.
Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict, as he lived throughout Mexico City, London, Paris, Berlin, the South American Amazon and Tangier in Morocco. Finding success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953), Burroughs is perhaps best known for his third novel Naked Lunch (1959).
In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1984 was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France.
Burroughs had one child in 1947, William Seward Burroughs III, with his second wife Joan Vollmer, who died in 1951 in Mexico City after Burroughs' accidental manslaughter, an event that deeply permeated all of his writings. Burroughs died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas after suffering a heart attack in 1997.
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