E
– Den beste boken som jeg noengang har lest. Har lest den ca. 50 ganger.
Junky
A shocking exposé of the desperate subculture surrounding heroin addiction, William S. Burroughs' Junky is edited with an introduction by Oliver Harris in Penguin Modern Classics.
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written.
Logg inn for å se din bonus
A shocking exposé of the desperate subculture surrounding heroin addiction, William S. Burroughs' Junky is edited with an introduction by Oliver Harris in Penguin Modern Classics.
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, Junky is a field report (by a writer trained in anthropology at Harvard) from the American post-war drug underground. Nurtured into being by fellow Beat Generation guru Allen Ginsberg, Junky is a cult classic that has influenced generations of writers with its raw, sparse and unapologetic tone. This definitive edition painstakingly recreates the author's original text word for word.
In work and in life, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) expressed a constant subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine.
If you enjoyed Junky, you might like Burroughs' Exterminator!, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'Reads today as fresh and unvarnished as it ever has'
Will Self
Medlemsvurdering:
Den beste boken som jeg noengang har lest. Har lest den ca. 50 ganger.Emil Haughom
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 208
- ISBN
- 9780141189826
- Utgivelsesår
- 2008
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
William S Burroughs (Author)
William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.
Oliver Harris (Introducer)
Oliver Harris is professor of American literature at Keele University and the editor of The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 (1993), Junky: the Definitive Text of "Junk" (2003), The Yage Letters Redux (2006), and Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2008). He has published articles on film noir, the epistolary, and Beat Generation writing and the book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination (2003). He is currently co-editing Naked Lunch@50: Anniversary Essays (2009) and working on a new twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Queer (forthcoming in 2010).
William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.
Oliver Harris (Introducer)
Oliver Harris is professor of American literature at Keele University and the editor of The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 (1993), Junky: the Definitive Text of "Junk" (2003), The Yage Letters Redux (2006), and Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2008). He has published articles on film noir, the epistolary, and Beat Generation writing and the book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination (2003). He is currently co-editing Naked Lunch@50: Anniversary Essays (2009) and working on a new twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Queer (forthcoming in 2010).
Medlemmers vurdering
Skriv en vurdering
C
– En halvveis selvbiografisk roman om hvordan en ung mann blir hektet på heroin, skrevet av den ameirkanske beatkulturens kult-ikon, William Burroughs. Boka er svak i form, og noe dvask i innhold. Stilen er stiv og uinvitterende. Man får avbildet den grå, beinharde virkeligheten i et ungt miljø hvor det altoppslukende heroinbegjæret er det pivoterende; kynismen og det grå synet på livet, som følger med å leve kun med øynene av avhengighet. Boka er for enkel og komposisjonen en kronologi. Fortellingen er i seg selv grei nok, og godt skrevet. Men det er ingenting mer. Det er en bok du fort glemmer, og den har ikke så mye bortsett fra for dem som er sterkt interessert i Burroughs. Hans senere stil skulle bli eksperimentell, grotesk, livaktig og humoristisk, men i denne boka finner man lite av det. Jeg mener å huske, fra biografien, at han skrev denne mest for å tjene penger.
M
– Avhengighens vesen og narkotika er et tema som går igjen i Burroughs bøker. Junky er i likhet med Burroughs andre bøker usentimental og full av kraftige bilder, lignelser og metaforer. I tillegg er den velskrevet og enkel og er egnet også for dem som ikke greier å følge med i den tyngre Naked Lunchs allusjoner og hoppende fortellermåte. Engelsken er også lettfattelig. Vi følger hovedpersonen fra sin ungdom og sitt første måte med heroin og videre inn i et liv som narkotikaavhengig, der det eneste livet spinner seg rundt, er heroin. Hvordan få tak i det, hvordan bruke det en har, hvordan så få tak i mer. Den totalt usentimentale tonen gjør denne boken til en unik leseropplevelse for dem som ønsker et innblikk i Junkiens hverdag, selv om en alltid må ha i bakhodet de selvillusjoner forfatteren personlig innehadde ovenfor heroinens effekt på kroppen og sin egen avhengighet (han hevdet at han greide å bli rusfri, noe de fleste biografiske undersøkelser avviser).