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Paperback Cut Up! an Anthology Inspired by the Cut-Up Method of William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin Book

ISBN: 1291745920

ISBN13: 9781291745924

Cut Up! an Anthology Inspired by the Cut-Up Method of William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin

In Paris in the late Fifties the Beat Generation writer William Burroughs and his sidekick Brion Gysin developed the cut-up method. It involved taking a piece of finished text and cutting it into pieces - then rearranging those pieces to create a new text or work of art. Burroughs wrote that: "When you cut into the present the future leaks out." The cut-up had a profound effect on music, writing, painting, and film. Devotees of the cut-up include...

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