Nova Express - The Restored Text

The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded , William Burroughs deploys his cut-up methods to make a visionary demand that we take back the world that has been stolen from us. Edited and introduced by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, this new edition reveals how Nova Express was cut from an extraordinary wealth of typescripts to create startling new forms of poetic possibility. The third book of Burroughs' linguistically prophetic 'cut-up' trilogy - following The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded - Nova Express is a hilarious and Swiftian parody of bureaucracy and the frailty of the human animal.

About the author

William S Burroughs (author) and Oliver Harris (editor)

Summary

Fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. This book reveals how Nova Express was cut from a wealth of typescripts to create startling new forms of poetic possibility.

Product details

• Authors: William S Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Burroughs William, Oliver Harris
• Assisted by: Oliver Harris (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.04.2014
• EAN: 9780141396064
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139606-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; The Cut-Up Trilogy: The Restored Texts; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; The Cut-Up Trilogy: The Restored Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary