num_pages: 143
description: Book one in Burroughs' surreal, anarchic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'. Hanged soldiers, North African street urchins, addicted narcotics agents, Spanish rent boys, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the mythology of history or the laboratories of science -- Burroughs is truly the Hieronymous Bosch of our time. In this surreal, savage and brilliantly funny novel, Burroughs' famous 'cut-up' technique, the slicing and random folding in of words, was fully developed, transforming the narrative into an extraordinary, unequalled new form of prose poetry.
language: English
title: Soft Machine
titlecomplete: Soft Machine
characters: Inspector J. Lee
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Queer, Surreal, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 6420
series: The Nova Trilogy
publisher: Flamingo