Before his 1959 breakthrough, "Naked Lunch," an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote "Junk," his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Har...
Before his 1959 breakthrough, "Naked Lunch," an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote "Junk," his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of "Junk"'s text and places its contents against a lively historical background.
Junk is lifestyle: a habit that relinquishes triviality of life, a cloak that hides away the cruelty of life, and a silent stance against homogeneity and alienation of modern life. It is a life that was destined to fail and a belief that was fated to decay....
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0 有用 momo 2023-10-08 12:55:32 江苏
流水账记吸毒史是否也算一种实验，还是说靠凯鲁亚克找的关系开启文学梦
0 有用 没脚鸟 2017-03-30 22:00:34
吸毒-贩毒-戒毒-复吸-逃往墨西哥-再次戒毒...巴勒斯是个Junky但也始终是个作家，记录自己经历的一切时所运用的语言是那么清醒理智，好像他只是一个旁观者而不是当事人。
1 有用 Heidegger 2016-11-24 21:53:27
两百页写了无数轮回
0 有用 香葱面包 2015-08-18 09:00:48
八年吸毒史，垮掉一代颇具才华的作家William. S. Burroughs 第一部半自传小说。
1 有用 ²͢͢͢³ᵀᵒˣⁱᶜalfo. 2018-10-03 20:50:58
“A junkie spends half his life waiting.”