AccueilGroupesDiscussionsPlusTendances
Site de recherche
Ce site utilise des cookies pour fournir nos services, optimiser les performances, pour les analyses, et (si vous n'êtes pas connecté) pour les publicités. En utilisant Librarything, vous reconnaissez avoir lu et compris nos conditions générales d'utilisation et de services. Votre utilisation du site et de ses services vaut acceptation de ces conditions et termes.

Résultats trouvés sur Google Books

Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.

Chargement...

Parages des voies mortes (1984)

par William S. Burroughs

Autres auteurs: Voir la section autres auteur(e)s.

Séries: Cities of the Red Night Trilogy (2)

MembresCritiquesPopularitéÉvaluation moyenneMentions
934322,443 (3.83)18
This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, a homosexual gunslinger who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom. Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues William Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces - the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs - with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.… (plus d'informations)
Aucun
Chargement...

Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre

Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.

» Voir aussi les 18 mentions

3 sur 3
On the cover Native American males one 'white' guy (whatever the fuck that is) - all looking pretty illuminated from my seat. It reminds me of an excerpt from "Naked Scientology", one of the Burroughs bks I haven't listed here b/c I'm not sure I've read it entirely. In this excerpt, Burroughs defends things he's written about the Church of Scientology from a Church representative whose 'facts' against Burroughs are quoted:

7) Item: Wog
'Fact': A term not used by the Church. After all, all Scientologists were once non-Scientologists. I could see it being used to describe a person like Mr. Burroughs whose unwillingness to be honest has led him to spy on a Church.

FACT: I have heard Mr. Hubbard use the term Wog on tapes lectures. I have heard him define the term as a 'Worthy Oriental Gentleman'. I have seen bulletins that speak of the Wog World and Wog Law. As is well known, the term Wog has come to mean Non White. Mr. Sorrell could see it being used to describe a person like Mr. Burroughs? Thank you for that, Mr. Sorrell. I shoould be glad to change a color that has disgraced itself from the Conquistradores to Hiroshima.

Right on.. But did Burroughs ever get over his misogyny? ( )
  tENTATIVELY | Apr 3, 2022 |
Now that was a good damn book. Burroughs was a genius, and he was disciplined. He worked at his thing, and got better at it as he got older. His medium, the unconscious Naked Lunch surrealism thing, remains as it was in the Johnson Family, or rather Place of Dead Roads, but with age Burroughs is able to use that riff for ever-expanding purposes. He does a solid job with psychology, the unconscious, western US history, time-travel, evolution, and gun collecting, all while putting in what must be autobiographical elements, as he tells them with such real tenderness. A tour de force of tone and humor.
I'd say this and Cities of the Red Night are the best he ever did, which is remarkable for a writer of his age, considering Kurt Vonnegut's rather true assertion that American male writers tend not to do a fuck after the age of 55. Place of Dead Roads is also by far the funniest thing Burroughs ever wrote, drop-the-book, laugh-out-loud funny. Read it soon! ( )
  EugenioNegro | Mar 17, 2021 |
I didn't understand this book. I didn't really see the point of it. I couldn't really follow it. To be honest, I bought it because I liked the cover. It's a very cool cover.

Admit it.

William Burroughs's novel, The Place of Dead Roads, begins as a satire of the classic American western gunslinger. The hero is a young man with a gun. He comes into town and very quickly forms a gang made up of other young men who all want to sleep with him.

Well, not sleep.

In fact, nearly all of the men our hero meets want to sleep with him. Most of them do.

For all of the sex our hero has in the first half of The Place of Dead Roads there's not much writing about sex in the book. Mr. Burroughs just states that so-and-so slept with the hero and moves on with his story. He saves his more flowery prose for descriptions of guns. There are lots of guns in The Place of Dead Roads. Guns described in ways I expect sex is described in 50 Shades of Gray. I've not read 50 Shades of Gray so I'm guessing here, but I imagine that the sex in 50 Shades of Gray is described in ways that are meant to be erotic but not in ways that go so far as to offend too many people. Real, but not that real. That's about how Mr. Burroughs describes the guns in The Place of Dead Roads.

That's probably part of the satire, that the guns are described like sex while the sex is not described at all.

About half way through The Place of Dead Roads the hero goes into the future and travels into space.

That's where Mr. Burroughs really lost me, but I think the rest of the book takes place on Venus.

There's not nearly as much sex in the second half of the book, which was kind of a let down, oddly. There aren't as many guns either.

I remember reading somewhere that Mr. Burroughs once took a manuscript, cut it into pieces and then rearranged those pieces more-or-less randomly to produce a new manuscript which he then published. By the end of The Place of Dead Roads I was beginning to wonder if something similar was going on. Mr. Burrough's writing is excellent. Judging his work on a sentence by sentence basis, even a page by page basis, I have to say that he is a wonderful writer. However, looking at the novel as a whole, I have to say that by the end of The Place of Dead Roads I remembered why I stopped reading William Burroughs two decades ago. ( )
  CBJames | Jul 5, 2012 |
3 sur 3
Since Naked Lunch, his writing has been invaded by overheard conversations, newspaper headlines, and similar kinds of texts that settle like airborne microbes. This kind of deliberate disruption goes back at least to Tristan Tzara; what is peculiar to Burroughs is the way that randomly chosen or observed details survive and mutate through book after book.
 
Mr. Burroughs takes the premises of cosmic conspiracy and time travel a step further in his new novel, ''The Place of Dead Roads,'' continuing to fulfill a wish he expressed in ''The Soft Machine,'' to produce a mythology durable enough for the space age.
 

» Ajouter d'autres auteur(e)s (26 possibles)

Nom de l'auteurRôleType d'auteurŒuvre ?Statut
Burroughs, William S.auteur principaltoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Aichele, RoseÜbersetzerauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
Foreman, MarkArtiste de la couvertureauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé

Appartient à la série

Vous devez vous identifier pour modifier le Partage des connaissances.
Pour plus d'aide, voir la page Aide sur le Partage des connaissances [en anglais].
Titre canonique
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
Titre original
Titres alternatifs
Date de première publication
Personnes ou personnages
Lieux importants
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
Évènements importants
Films connexes
Épigraphe
Dédicace
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
To Denton Welch,
For Kim Carsons
Premiers mots
Citations
Derniers mots
Notice de désambigüisation
Directeur de publication
Courtes éloges de critiques
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
Langue d'origine
DDC/MDS canonique
LCC canonique

Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes.

Wikipédia en anglais (3)

This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, a homosexual gunslinger who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom. Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues William Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces - the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs - with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.

Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque

Description du livre
Résumé sous forme de haïku

Discussion en cours

Aucun

Couvertures populaires

Vos raccourcis

Évaluation

Moyenne: (3.83)
0.5
1 3
1.5
2 9
2.5 3
3 25
3.5 7
4 34
4.5 6
5 36

Est-ce vous ?

Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing.

 

À propos | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Respect de la vie privée et règles d'utilisation | Aide/FAQ | Blog | Boutique | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliothèques historiques | Critiques en avant-première | Partage des connaissances | 203,189,779 livres! | Barre supérieure: Toujours visible