It was last seen in The Daily Mirror general knowledge crossword. Here are the possible solutions for '1959 William Burroughs novel' clue. We will try to find the right answer to this particular crossword clue. His conversations in hell with the Marquis de Sade must be very entertaining. Todays crossword puzzle clue is a general knowledge one: 1959 William Burroughs novel. Like Jean Genet, Burroughs trafficks in the utmost degradations, but he doesn’t go to them looking for unsuspected sources of radiance. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of. He once said, “My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space Age” - by which he meant addiction and willful extremity, both of which of course have turned out to be virtues in the modern market economy.
With its fractured account of junkies and assorted urban desperadoes, its fang-baring humor and its sudden excursions into sheer hallucination, it instantly made him the depraved scoutmaster for generations of would-be hipsters. This notoriety has not led to the academic canonization of Burroughss novel, however, as it did in a case to which the Naked Lunch trial is often compared. This is his greatest book and the template for all the ones that followed. The letters are entertaining and revealing, placing Burroughs. An heir to the Burroughs adding machine fortune, Burroughs the novelist hated the despots of Squaresville and the whole world where money makes its fist. This is the first volume of letters from William Burroughs, covering the years 1945-1959.
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