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"Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In CALL ME BURROUGHS, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, CALL ME BURROUGHS is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject. "--… (más)
This is a fantastic book. Unfortunately, it actually has too much sex and it seems like some of the material is disorganized, but I really enjoy listening to the audiobook. War example is when he talks about 10 years he talks about nothing but sex with underage prostitute boys, instead of other things about Tangiers that would’ve been more interesting to me. ( )
Hugely enjoyable. Barry Miles's intimate portrait of Burroughs strips away the artsy associations and we are invited, momentarily, to peer into the human sides of El Hombre Invisible: gun toter, accidental artist, guileless boy, sensitive sweetheart, absurdly inappropriate humourist and ardent cat fan - alongside being the accidental murderer of wife Joan Vollmer and the absent dad of son William Jr. It's astonishing to see how reviled he was when he was just starting out, when you see the reverence he received on later. Goes to show how inconsequential and picky fame can be, I guess? ( )
The detailed story of the life of WSB. A fascinating read. I find that his life was more interesting than his writing. Difficult to read at points without passing judgment on his actions. As to a technicality of the book, footnotes would have been more efficient than endnotes, given the size of the book ( )
"Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In CALL ME BURROUGHS, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, CALL ME BURROUGHS is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject. "--
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