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Everything Lost : The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs, Revised Edition by William S. Burroughs (2017, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOhio State University Press
ISBN-100814253830
ISBN-139780814253830
eBay Product ID (ePID)234314537
Product Key Features
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameEverything Lost : the Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs, Revised Edition
Publication Year2017
SubjectEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Central America, Journalism, Literary, American / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Travel, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2016-053674
Dewey Edition23
Reviews" Everything Lost was written during the same period as Junky , Queer, and The Yage Letters , and it sheds light on all of them, as well as on Burroughs's methods of composition, the way he worked his material out in letters or journal entries before incorporating it into his books. Here we have a portrait of the artist in the act of becoming, a glimpse beneath the icon and its aftermath." --David L. Ulin, The Los Angeles Times, "From the opening page we immediately get an extraordinarily vivid picture of Burroughs himself, sitting alone in some dingy bar in the Peruvian coastal town of Talara, pencil in hand--his "rum" in the other--pressing his thoughts and observations onto the paper in his own, instantly recognizable style." --from the introduction by Oliver Harris, "A disturbing impressionist travelogue, a flawed but brilliant prose poem, and one writer's beginnings all at once, the notebook gives us a taste of the real Burroughs, pure and uncut." -- The Georgia Review, "Burroughs was an authentic American original and any doubts on that should be quelled by this journal." -- The Morning News, " Everything Lost was written during the same period as Junky , Queer, and The Yage Letters , and it sheds light on all of them, as well as on Burroughs's methods of composition, the way he worked his material out in letters or journal entries before incorporating it into his books. Here we have a portrait of the artist in the act of becoming, a glimpse beneath the icon and its aftermath." --David L. Ulin, The Los Angeles Times
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIn late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burroughs began a notebook of final reflections on his four years in Latin America. His first novel, Junkie, had just been published and he would soon be back in New York to meet Allen Ginsberg and together complete the manuscripts of what became The Yage Letters and Queer. Yet this notebook, the sole survivor from that period, reveals Burroughs not as a writer on the verge of success, but as a man staring down personal catastrophe and visions of looming cultural disaster. Losses that will not let go of him haunt Burroughs throughout the notebook: "Bits of it keep floating back to me like memories of a daytime nightmare." However, out of these dark reflections we see emerge vivid fragments of Burroughs' fiction and, even more tellingly, unique, primary evidence for the remarkable ways in which his early manuscripts evolved. Assembled in facsimile and transcribed by Geoffrey D. Smith, John M. Bennett, and Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, the notebook forces us to change the way we see both Burroughs and his writing at a turning point in his literary biography.
LC Classification NumberPS3552.U75E63 2017
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