Brion Gysin Let the Mice In

by Brion Gysin, Ian Sommerville, William S. Burroughs

Brion Gysin Let the Mice Brion Brion Gysin Let the Mice Something Else FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Published by Something Else Press, 1973. Octavo. Hardcover. 1 of 1000 copies. Red topstain. Book is very good. An excellent copy of this landmark novel, scarce in hardcover. Seller 331646 Literature

Genres: Poetry, Literature

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 28, 1973

About the author

John Clifford Brian Gysin, raised in Canada and England, was a peripheral figure in the Beat movement of the mid-20th century.

After serving is the U.S. Army during WWII, he received one of the first Fulbright Fellowships in 1949. A decade later he became closely associated with Beat writer William S. Burroughs. Their popularization of the Dadaist "cut-up technique" are the primary source of Gysin's literary fame.

Reviews

[Vaggelis]

Ένα βιβλίο γραμμένο από ένα ανήσυχο καί αεικίνητο πνεύμα.

Ο συνεργάτης και κοντινός φίλος του William Burroughs,ο ζωγράφος/μουσικός Brion Gysin ήταν ο βασιλιάς τού λογοτεχνικού (καί όχι μόνο)underground τίς δεκαετίες τού 60 καί τού 70.

Καί είναι λογικό. Η φρεσκάδα καί πληθώρα τών εμπνευσμένων ιδεών στην θεματολογία καί την τεχνική, δίνουν μια πρωτόγνωρη αναγνωστική εμπειρία.
Η συνεισφορά των Burroughs και Sommerville δεν ξέρω τί μέγεθος είχε, αλλά τό βιβλίο είναι η επιτομή τού avant garde.

Παρόλη την δυσκολία καί τό βάθος των νοημάτων τών κειμένων,η μετάφραση στα ελληνικά από τον Λειβαδά είναι εξαιρετική κρατώντας την ατμόσφαιρα καί την συνοχή πού παρέχει η αγγλική γλώσσα. Πολύ απαιτητική δουλειά καί μπράβο τού.

Τα δοκίμια είναι σπάνιας ομορφιάς, όμως σας προτείνω τα cut-up ποιήματα να τα ψάξετε πρώτα στο youtube όπου υπάρχουν διάφορες ερμηνείες καί προσεγγίσεις στην απαγγελία τούς, καθότι κάποιος αμύητος στην μέθοδο τού συγγραφέα πιθανόν να τά βρει ακατανόητα.

[Tentatively, Convenience]

Of course, I keep writing over & over: Something Else Press = greatness. This is another installment in the Gysin/Burroughs/(&, in this case, Ian Somerville) history of cut-ups. Add to that some of Gysin's graphics & permutation poems. & fotos too. The permutations were probably pretty exciting to Gysin when he wrote them but now they just seem like: So what? to me.

"I AM THAT I AM
AM I THAT I AM", etc..

I like permutating things but I don't really think that Gysin's simple permutations add up to much. Still, this is a substantial bk for a person not jaded to the subject(s). What so?

[candice]

I used to leaf over this book a lot when I was in school at UCSB. There was something about going deep into the stacks to find this book that was fitting.

[Kendal]

Had to sell this one, wish I had it back.

[Mat]

this book is just okay. Gysin's permutation poems didn't seem to gel much with me but the essays in this book are worth reading just so you can trace a bit of a lineage behind the birth of the cut-ups. some of the cut-ups work well, especially Gysin's cut-up prose which achieves a form of disjunctive beauty hard to describe. Burroughs' cut-up work in this book ranges from very good and sometimes funny to pretty meaningless.

all told, this book serves more as a companion to Minutes to go and The Exterminator