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The Yage Letters Redux (Paperback, 4th ed)
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The Yage Letters Redux (Paperback, 4th ed)
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List price R430
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Discovery Miles 3 570
You Save R73 (17%)
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In January 1953, William Burroughs began a seven-month expedition
into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the
fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. But Burroughs also cast his
anthropological-satiric eye over the local regimes to record
trademark vignettes of political and psychic malaise. From the
notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg,
Burroughs composed a narrative of his adventures that appeared ten
years later as "In Search of Yage" within The Yage Letters. That
book, published by City Lights in 1963, was completed by the
addition of Ginsberg's account of his own experiences with yage as
he traveled through South America in 1960, and by the addition of
other Burroughs letters and texts. For this new edition, Burroughs
scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to the original manuscripts to
untangle the history of the text, telling the fascinating story of
its genesis and cultural importance in his wide-ranging
introduction. Also included in this edition are extensive
materials, never before published, by both Burroughs and Ginsberg
that shed new light on their adventures in exploration and writing
"A complete understanding of the literary legacy of William
Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg is impossible without reading this
amazing collection of letters and documents centered on yage, the
fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. . . . These crucial texts go
beyond simple curiosity about mind-changing drugs to set the
foundation of what would later become a literary movement that
changed American literature."-Bloomsbury Review "Burroughs' book
about his search for the 'ultimate fix', The Yage Letters,
possesses an equally strange and secret history. Published in 1963
but written a decade earlier, it has long been seen as a
fascinating curio in the Burroughs canon, yet a new edition of the
book, edited by Oliver Harris, places it more centrally in the list
of key Burroughs texts. . . . The Yage Letters marks the point when
Burroughs moved full-time into his own, fully realised
universe."-The Independent UK William Burroughs is widely
recognized as one of the most influential and innovative writers of
the twentieth century. His books include: Junky, Naked Lunch,
Queer, The Wild Boys and The Place of Dead Roads. Oliver Harris is
a professor in literature and film in the School of American
Studies at Keele University. He is the editor of The Letters of
William S, Burroughs (Penguin) and the 50th anniversary edition of
Junky (Penguin).
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