"William S. Burroughs / Brion Gysin: Il demone della letteratura" (2008)

 

Milan, Italy: Shake Edizioni (book, compilation), 2008.
8.875" x 5.75" x 0.625", 222 pages, softcover, Italian language, ISBN 978-88-88865-48-5.

William S. Burroughs / Brion Gysin: Il demone della letteratura, a compilation of writings by and about William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, as published by Shake Edizioni (Milan, Italy) in partnership with Vale's Re/Search imprint (San Francisco, California, US) in a softcover edition in 2008. Translations by Giancarlo Carlotti, Alberto Grain, Monica Garuti, and Raf Valvola Scelsi. Design/Layout by Rosie Pianeta. Cover photo by Gottfried Helnwein.

This contains many reproductions of art and photographs by Gottfried Helnwein, Charles Gatewood, Udo Breger, Myles Aronowitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Volker Hinz, Marcia Resnick, Philip Heying, Vale, Ruby Ray, Allen Ginsberg, Gerard Malanga, Martin Fraudreau, Nicolas Tikhomiroff, Terry O'Neill, Brion Gysin, Gordon Ball, Steve Miles, Mary Ellen Mark, Charles Henri Ford, Ulrich Hillebrand, Nelson Lyon, Ira Cohen, Mellon, François de Palaminy, Ann Charters, Graham Keen, Lance Gurwell [uncredited], and others.

Burroughs’s essay on Brion Gysin and the Cut-up Method, “Il metodo cut-up di Brion Gysin,” is at pages 137-144.

An excerpt from Terry Wilson’s and Brion Gysin’s Here To Go: Planet R-101 is at pages 145-152.

An essay on Brion Gysin by Terry Wilson, “Brion Gysin. Unia biograpfia rivalutazione,” is at pages 153-170.

A dialogue between Jon Savage, Genesis P-Orridge, Peter Christopherson, and Brion Gysin is at pages 183-200.

Jean François Bizot contributes an interview with Brion Gysin at pages 201-206.

Finally, Vittore Baroni provides a bibliography of Burroughs and Gysin at the end of the book.

Contents: 

• Andrea Juno: "Re/Search Story. Intervista ad Andrea Juno" (interview)
• William S. Burroughs: "Il nuovo manuale delle giovani marmotte acquistato nel '23" (prose) 
• Jean François Bizot and Michel Braudeau: "L'ultimo scrittore" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs: "Early Routines. Un estratto" (prose)
• Vale and William S. Burroughs: "Intervista a W. S. Burroughs" (interview)
• William S. Burroughs: "Strade Morte. Due estratti" (prose)
• Klaus Maeck and William S. Burroughs: "Mi piace sparare" (interview)
• William S. Burroughs: "L'arte Nagual" (essay)
• James Grauerholz: "Sull'atre di Burroughs" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs: "Città della notte rossa. Un capitolo inedito" (prose)
• Klaus Maeck and William S. Burroughs: "Cruise Control" (interview)
• William S. Burroughs: "Il metodo cut-up di Brion Gysin" (essay)
• Terry Wilson and Brion Gysin: "Here To Go: Planet R-101 – Estratti sugli esperimenti con registratore" (interview)
• Terry Wilson: "Brion Gysin. Una biografia rivalutazione" (essay)
• Terry Wilson and Brion Gysin: "Here To Go: Planet R-101. Estratto sul Marocco" (interview)
• Jon Savage, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Peter Christopherson, and Brion Gysin: "Intervista a Brion Gysin" (interview)
• Jean François Bizot and Brion Gysin: "Anni Trenta. Brion Gysin racconta la sua Parigi underground" (interview)
• Vittore Baroni: "Porti d'accesso. Repertorio bibliografico" (bibliography)