William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book
on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the
American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft
Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the
best-known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more
than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in
works of collage. By cutting up, folding in, and splicing together
newspapers, magazines, letters, book reviews, classical literature,
audio recordings, photographs, and films, Burroughs created an
eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection
includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups
of work written by his son, cut-ups of critical responses to his
own work, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal,
excerpts from his dream journals, and some of the few diary entries
that Burroughs wrote about his wife, Joan. William S. Burroughs
Cutting Up the Century also features original essays, interviews,
and discussions by established Burroughs scholars, respected
artists, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider
Burroughs from a range of starting points-literary studies, media
studies, popular culture, gender studies, post-colonialism,
history, and geography. Ultimately, the collection situates
Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers
his insights on political and social problems that have become even
more dire in ours.
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