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| Title | : | Nothing Is True - Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.77 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932857125 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
Flawed but Useful Well, I'm going to have a bit each way here. On one hand, this book has a lot of valuable information in it about the life of Brion Gysin. I was interested in Gysin through my interest in William Burroughs, his collaborator. I am sure a lot of people will be coming to Gysin down this path. I have read 'Here to Go' which is basically a book of interviews with Gysin. I must say that despite the information here, the author (Geiger) has managed to make Gysin's life dull. That's a real shame, because Gysin's life appears to be have been anything but boring. Though there are . A great biography and a beautiful looking book I won't write a long review, there's plenty of them here already.The biography covers Gysin's life pretty well, it has all the mile stones, explains what happened when and where, all you need in a biography. It's fairly well written in a style that doesn't take your attention away from the "plot". It does cover a lot of Ginsberg's and Burroughs' lives as well, which is what you'd expect in Gysin biography, especially for someone like me, and I'm not alone, who got into Gysin through Burroughs and the Beats.One thing I should add that I haven't read elsewhere: This book i
Toklas' cookbook, promising "ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes." It was Gysin who introduced Burroughs to an automatic writing method called the cut-up, a literary progenitor to sampling. He went everywhere when the going was good. Burroughs, John Geiger has produced the first-ever biography of the painter, poet, piper Brion Gysin.. He dabbled with surrealism in Paris in the 1930s, lived in the "interzone" of Tangier in the 1950s and traveled the Algerian Sahara with Sheltering Sky author Paul Bowles before moving into the legendary Beat Hotel in Paris.Gysin's ideas influenced generations of artists, musicians and writers, among them David Bowie, Keith Haring, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Genesis P-Orridge, John Giorno and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. It was Gysin who provided the hashish fudge
. He recently contributed to the Thames & Hudson monograph Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age. John Geiger's books have been published in eight languages
Provides an illuminating and entertaining glimpse into the bohemian demimonde of literary queens and dope-fiends." -- The Daily Telegraph"Gysin in both flattering and unflattering lights, with alternative voices, spicy gossip,and Gysin's involvement with movements of ideas " -- The Independent"Looking from a special angle at the whole 20th-century avant-garde." -- National Post"Now, finally, the impeccably researched, astute biography that Gysin's life and work has long demanded." -- Marcus Boon, author of The
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