The Yage Letters

Informationen zum Autor Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs Klappentext William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel! Junky ! by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers! a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters - a mix of travel writing! satire! psychedelia and epistolary novel - he journeys through South America! writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug! using it to travel through time and space! to derange his senses - the perfect drug for the author of the wild decentred books that followed. Years later! Ginsberg writes back as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps! and the drug worse and more profound than he had imagined. Zusammenfassung A mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel.

Product details

• Authors: William S Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Oliver Harris
• Assisted by: Oliver Harris (Editor), Oliver Harris (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.11.2008
• EAN: 9780141189864
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118986-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Diaries, letters and journals