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Dead Fingers Talk
1963 British hardcover edition.Author(s) William S. Burroughs Country United States Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Calder Publication date 1963 Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) ISBN NA Dead Fingers Talk, first published in 1963, was the fifth novel published by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. The book was originally published by Olympia Press.
The book combines sections from Burroughs' earlier novels, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, in an attempt to create a new narrative. It is sometimes referred to as a compilation, but this is technically incorrect. Its plot cannot be easily described. Although the publisher John Calder claimed that it contained previously unpublished material, this extra text has never been identified.
Dead Fingers Talk, like many of Burroughs' works, was controversial upon its release. It was the subject of a scathing review in the Times Literary Supplement that resulted in a war of words between supporters and detractors of the novel (and Burroughs in general) that played out in the magazine's letters page for months.
The book itself is considered one of the rarer of Burroughs' novels, and despite some reprints in the 1970s, has otherwise been out of print for years.
External links
- Collecting Dead Fingers Talk Article discussing the collectibility of Dead Fingers Talk
- Website[dead link] discussing Burroughs. work and the reaction to Dead Fingers Talk.
Works by William S. Burroughs Novels and novellas - And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
- Junkie
- Queer
- Naked Lunch
- The Soft Machine
- The Ticket That Exploded
- Dead Fingers Talk
- Nova Express
- The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
- The Wild Boys
- Port of Saints
- Blade Runner (a movie)
- Cities of the Red Night
- Ghost of Chance
- The Place of Dead Roads
- The Western Lands
- My Education: A Book of Dreams
- The Cat Inside
Short story collections Essay collections Non-fiction - The Yage Letters
- The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
- Letters to Allen Ginsberg
- The Burroughs File
- Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
Recording - Dead City Radio
- Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales
- Real English Tea Made Here
Films Categories:- 1963 novels
- Novels by William S. Burroughs
- 1960s novel stubs
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