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William S. Burroughs (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

Because of their experimental techniques, William Burroughs’s works are especially difficult to classify within established literary forms. Exterminator! (1973), for example, although published as a “novel,” is actually a collection of previously published poems, short stories, and essays. Other unclassifiable works are book-length experiments, often written in collaboration and in the “cut-up, fold- in” technique pioneered by Burroughs, which might be considered novels by some. Examples of such works are Minutes to Go (1960),...

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