The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs
The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs
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The Ticket That Exploded
The Restored Text

Author: William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris

Narrator: Ramiz Monsef

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/14/2016

Synopsis

In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’ grand “cut-up” trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. Only Burroughs could make such a nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of ad men and con men whose deceitful language has spread like an incurable disease be at once so frightening and so enthralling.

About William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) was an American author, painter, and spoken-word performer who has had a wide-ranging influence on American culture. Jack Kerouac called him the “greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.” Norman Mailer declared him “the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius.” A postmodernist and a key figure of the beat generation, he focused his art on a relentless subversion of the moral, political, and economic conventions of modern American society, as reflected in his often darkly humorous and sardonic satire. He wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six short-story collections, and four collections of essays. No fewer than five books of his interviews and correspondence have been published. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians and made many appearances in films. He was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983 and in the following year was appointed to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

About Oliver Harris

Oliver Harris, a British academic and professor of American literature at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, is the author and editor of numerous books, including works by William S. Burroughs and two series, the D. C. Belsey and the Elliot Kane mysteries.

About Ramiz Monsef

Ramiz Monsef has spent several seasons as a member of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s acting company, and he is the playwright of OSF’s 2013 production The Unfortunates. He has also appeared onstage in New York and in numerous regional productions.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rhys on June 05, 2016

Having read this all the way through I can state confidently that I had absolutely no idea what was going on. And yet, at the same time, I sort of did. My understanding was somehow behind the story rather than in the story itself. The book seems to be about how the human visual imagination is really......more

Goodreads review by Melancton on March 12, 2013

If you don't like the idea of reading paragraph after paragraph about catapulting streams of jism, then maybe this book is not for you. But the Ticket That Exploded is about so much more than torrential ejaculations... it's about melting your head right down to your shoulders. There is a kind of zen......more

Goodreads review by E. C. on May 30, 2019

Maybe this goes without saying but William Burroughs' cut-up pieces are so aggressively anti-narrative that they're openly hostile to the reader. The reader has no purchase on the plot (what little plot there is) and, more than that, the plot has no purchase on itself. Because of the very cut-up pro......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 11, 2024

It's like a 230-page slow-motion nightmare taking place under water. William S. Burroughs's The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text is not for readers who demand a tightly reasoned and wholly comprehensible book. You will encounter whole pages that appear to make no sense, but are crudely poetic......more

Goodreads review by Tosh on December 01, 2007

The one William S. Burroughs book that causes the fan base to be afraid, really afraid. Burroughs at his most out there - those who have a fear of experimental writing - stay far away. This is a live bomb ticking slowly and it may explode in your hands! For those who are not afraid, this is really g......more

Quotes

“It is in books like The Ticket That Exploded that Burroughs seems to revel in a new medium for its own sake—a medium totally fantastic, spaceless, timeless, in which the normal sentence is fractured, the cosmic tries to push its way through bawdry, and the author shakes the reader as a dog shakes a rat.” Anthony Burgess, New York Times bestselling author

“[Burroughs’] Swiftian vision of a processed, prepackaged life, a kind of electrochemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror.” Playboy

“The power of his imagination often carries his comedy far into the buried recesses of the psyche.” New Republic

“In Mr. Burroughs’ hands, writing reverts to acts of magic.” New York Times

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