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Title: Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs by William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz ISBN: 0-8021-3778-4 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: poignant writings
Comment: Touching, amusing entries in the life of an intellectual pioneer.
Burroughs revealed so much in his fiction but the journals are a more probing way we can peer into his mind and see what he was thinking in the last days.
One often wonders where good psychedelicists are headed in their final corporeal days, so works like this provide a certain insight not gleaned from their main body of work.
Burroughs was quite a character.
Rating: 3
Summary: Three and a half stars, really
Comment: These last words of Burroughs will have great poignancy for his fans, but might not be all that meaningful to the casual reader. He writes about mundane everyday occurrences, memories of his eventful life, makes extensive literary references and provides loving descriptions of his cats. For me, the Burroughs magic is here in abundance and this book helps to complete the big picture of his life and work. It's not all smooth sailing, though, as his repetitive railings against the "war on drugs" can become a bit tedious. Obscure references are explained in the explanatory Notes: I was interested to see he was a member of IOT (International Order of Thanateros - see the books Liber Kaos and Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter Carroll) and friends with V. Vale (See Re/Search Publications like Industrial Culture Handbook and Incredibly Strange Music). Some sections are funny, some are sad (especially where he writes about Joan Vollmer and his family) and some very interesting from a literary perspective. There are powerful passages of great beauty that stick in the mind. His love for his cats and for other animals like lemurs is very moving and shows that he may have been larger than life, but in the end he was very human. So, to wrap it up: Last Words is essential reading for the Burroughs enthusiast and the Burroughs scholar, to finally understand the man and his writing. Phew ... I am relieved, to know how much he loved some people and his pets, in the end.
Rating: 3
Summary: What's missing?
Comment: It will be good in the future to see the orginal notes--one really wonders what has been edited out to protect the image. Any journal is a problem to read--but when the editing is done by those with the most to protect (family, lovers, etc), historians must be really concerned. Probably not worth buying new, but it will be out in paper soon. Get the cheap copy.
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Title: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interview of Wiliam S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (Double Agents) by William S. Burroughs, Sylvère Lotringer, Sylvere Lotringer ISBN: 1584350105 Publisher: Semiotext(e) Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 0872860043 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: December, 1971 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959 by Oliver Harris, William S. Burroughs ISBN: 0140094520 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: My Education: A Book of Dreams by William S. Burroughs ISBN: 0140094547 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs ISBN: 0142000256 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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