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This newly restored edition of Dead Fingers Talk, based on the novel's archival manuscripts, will delight all Burroughs fans and lovers of experimental literature, and offer a new insight into the artistic process of one of the most original and influential writers of the twentieth century. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Which is all well and good, but is it readable? About as readable as Naked Lunch itself, I'd say, and more so than the unadulterated cut-up novels. If you're acquainted with all three books from which it was compiled, there's not much point in reading Dead Fingers Talk, but I enjoyed the sections from The Ticket That Exploded (one of the very few Burroughs novels I've never read). Any way you slice it, the book will feel exceedingly familiar to WSB fans, filled as it is with diseased genitalia, Mayan codices and the magic lantern imagery of junk addiction. Naturally, no claims to narrative coherence are made; Burroughs drifts from one routine to the next without any semblance of continuity, though certain characters (like Dr. Benway) and themes do recur. One can write this type of "novel" just so many times before the law of diminishing returns sets in. (Yes, that's the outline of Burroughs's hand on the cover. You can read about how he cut off the first joint of his left pinkie in the early, disquieting short story "The Finger," available in his 1989 collection Interzone.) ( )