Book description
William Burroughs work was dedicated to an assault upon language,
traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he
was at his most extreme and messianic,
The Job
lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening
worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing. On
the Beat movement, the importance of the cut-up technique, the press,
Scientology, capital punishment, drugs, good and evil, the destruction
of nations, Deadly Orgone Radiation and whether violence just in words
is violence enough Burroughs insights show why he was one of the most
influential writers and one of the sharpest, most startling and
strangest minds of his generation. 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.
