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An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilogy continued in The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands, William Burroughs sharply satirizes modern society in a poetic and shocking story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure.

Latem 1944 roku Nowym Jorkiem wstrząsa informacja o morderstwie – młody Lucien Carr śmiertelnie rani o dziesięć lat starszego Davida Kammerera. Pierwszymi, którzy się o tym dowiadują, są… William Burroughs i Jack Kerouac. A hipopotamy żywcem się ugotowały to opowieść o wydarzeniach poprzedzających tę zbrodnię, jednocześnie zaś wczesna próba talentu artystów, którzy przeszli do historii jako czołowi przedstawiciele Beat Generation. Burroughs i Kerouac bez pruderii portretują amerykańską bohemę końca lat czterdziestych, wypełniając nowojorskie bary miłością, alkoholem, narkotykami, przemocą i niekończącymi się dysputami. To jedyna książka napisana wspólnie przez obu pisarzy. Na pojawienie się drukiem czekała ponad sześćdziesiąt lat.

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested. Months later, the two writers - unpublished at the time - collaborated on And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a fictionalized account of the summer of the killing.

A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunch is an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, Naked Lunch's formal innovation, formerly taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution has exerted its influence authors like Thomas Pynchon and J. G. Ballard; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media in general.

With a dangerous blend of chemistry and magic, secret agent Lee has the ability to change bodies - his own, or with anyone he chooses. Also able to time travel, he finds himself forced to use his skills to defeat a team of priests, who are using mind control to produce their own private slave race. Dead soldiers, African street urchins, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the mythology of history and science all feature in Lee's terrifying adventure. A surreal space odyssey, The Soft Machine is the first book in Burrough's innovative 'cut-up' trilogy - followed by Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded - and a ferocious assault on hype, poverty, war and addiction in all its forms.

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. A cult classic, it 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.

This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, a homosexual gunslinger who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom. Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues William Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces - the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs - with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.

1. Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard 2. The Saints Go Marching Through All the Popular Tunes 3. Summer Will 4. Outside the Pier Prowed Like Electric Turtles 5. The Total Taste Is Here - News Cut-Up 6. Choral Section, Backwards 7. We See the Future Through the Binoculars of the People 8. Just Checking Your Summer Recordings 9. Creepy Letter - Cut-Up at the Beat Hotel in Paris 10. Inching - Is This Machine Recording? 11. Handkerchief Masks - News Cut-Up 12. Word Falling - Photo Falling 13. Throat Microphone Experiment 14. It's About Time to Identify Oven Area 15. Last Words of Hassan Sabbah

1. K-9 Was In Combat With The Alien Mi (Nd Screens) 2. Origin And Theory Of The Tape Cut-U (Ps) 3. Recalling All Active Agents 4. Silver Smoke Of Dreams 5. Junky Relations 6. Joujouka 7. Curse Go Back 8. Present Time Exercises 9. Joujouka 10. Working With The Popular Forces 11. Interview With Mr. Martin 12. Joujouka 13. Sound Piece 14. Joujouka 15. Burroughs Called The Law

1. K-9 Was In Combat With The Alien Mi (Nd Screens) 2. Origin And Theory Of The Tape Cut-U (Ps) 3. Recalling All Active Agents 4. Silver Smoke Of Dreams 5. Junky Relations 6. Joujouka 7. Curse Go Back 8. Present Time Exercises 9. Joujouka 10. Working With The Popular Forces 11. Interview With Mr. Martin 12. Joujouka 13. Sound Piece 14. Joujouka 15. Burroughs Called The Law

A1 "Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard" A2 "The Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular Tunes" A3 "Summer Will" A4 "Outside The Pier Prowed Like Electric Turtles" A5 "The Total Taste Is Here" - News Cut-Up A6 Choral Section, Backwards A7 "We See The Future Through The Binoculars Of The People" A8 "Just Checking Your Summer Recordings" B1 Creepy Letter - Cut-Up At The Beat Hotel In Paris B2 Inching - "Is This Machine Recording?" B3 "Handkerchief Masks" - News Cut-Up B4 "Word Falling - Photo Falling" B5 Throat Microphone Experiment B6 "It's About Time To Identify Oven Area" B7 Last Words Of Hassan Sabbah