5/24/2023 0 Comments 1959 novel by william burroughsBurroughs entered into a common law marriage with Joan Vollmer. He married a German-Jewish refugee, but only to enable the woman to immigrate to the United States. He moved around, living in Texas, New Orleans, Mexico City, South America, Africa, Paris and London. Burroughs was the grandson and namesake of the inventor of the adding machine.Īfter receiving a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard in 1936, he moved to New York City and developed a heroin addiction. Cut-ups involved random cutting and pasting and folding into his own writing quotations from other authors and other media.īorn in 1914 in St. Burroughs continued his unconventional style by using a technique called cut-ups in subsequent books, including The Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket That Exploded (1962) and Nova Express (1964). Publishers eventually won an appeal, and the book was published in the United States in 1962. The book also was the subject of a precedent-setting obscenity trial because of its violence and explicit sex.
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