His magnum opus is a collection of "routines" involving characters like the "liquefactionist" Hassan and the malevolent Dr. Benway.
This author's idea that "language is a virus" was first elucidated in his novel The Ticket That Exploded, the second book in a trilogy which also includes The Soft Machine and The Nova Express. Those novels used the "cut-up method" he developed along with Brion Gysin while living in the so-called Beat Hotel in Paris. His first novel was a thinly fictionalized account of his own heroin addiction, Junky, written a few years after he accidentally killed his wife while drunkenly attempting to shoot a glass off of her head. His magnum opus is a collection of "routines" involving characters like the "liquefactionist" Hassan and the malevolent Dr. Benway. FTP who is this Beat Generation author of Naked Lunch?
This author's idea that "language is a virus" was first elucidated in his novel The Ticket That Exploded, the second book in a trilogy which also includes The Soft Machine and The Nova Express.
William S. {Burroughs}