Nova Express The Restored Text

Nova Express The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs, published by Penguin in 2014, is a significant work within the author’s Cut-Up Trilogy, comprising 320 pages in English. This edition presents a politically charged narrative that explores the operations of the Nova Mob, showcasing Burroughs’ unique cut-up techniques to convey a vision of a world in turmoil. The text invites readers into a surreal landscape that critiques societal structures and the human condition.
In this edition, edited and introduced by Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, readers will encounter a blend of satire and science fiction that highlights the absurdities of bureaucracy. The book serves as a continuation of Burroughs’ exploration of language and form, revealing new poetic possibilities through its innovative structure. Nova Express stands as a provocative commentary on contemporary issues, making it a notable entry in the realms of fiction and literary classics.
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The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, William Burroughs deploys his cut-up methods to make a visionary demand that we take back the world that has been stolen from us.
Edited and introduced by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, this new edition reveals how Nova Express was cut from an extraordinary wealth of typescripts to create startling new forms of poetic possibility.
The third book of Burroughs’ linguistically prophetic ‘cut-up’ trilogy – following The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded – Nova Express is a hilarious and Swiftian parody of bureaucracy and the frailty of the human animal.
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