"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.

Excerpts from Burroughs’ Revised Boy Scout Manual (as “Il nuovo manuale delle giovani marmotte acquistato nel ‘23”) are at pages 13-34.

“L’ultimo scrittore” by Jean François Bizot and Michel Braudeau, is at pages 35-44.

An excerpt from Burroughs’ Early Routines is at pages 45-50.

Vale’s interview with William S. Burroughs (from Re/Search issue 4/5, 1982) is at pages 51-68.

Two excerpts from Place of Dead Roads (as “Strade Morte. Due estratti”) are at pages 69-78.

“Mi piace sparare”, an interview of WSB by Klaus Maeck, is at pages 79-86.

Burroughs’ essay “Nagual Art” (as “L’arte Nagual”) is at pages 87-88.

James Grauerholz’s essay on Burroughs, “Sull’arte di Burroughs”, is at pages 89-108.

An unedited chapter from Cities of the Red Night is at pages 109-118.

Another interview of WSB by Klaus Maeck, “Cruise Control”, is at pages 119-136.

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

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)