541 pages
Russian language
Published Jan. 7, 1999 by Izd-vo "Azbuka", Izd-vo "Amfora".
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.
A perfect slice of literature, awash in powerful, nonsensical imagery and affective word splicings.
An early intro to Burroughs cut-up technique where he takes a basic narrative - though an unusual one, a story of mind control in a relic native population in South America - and cuts it up, juxtaposes it with other images to provide a strange and deliberately hallucinatory text.
