
The Process
Brion Gysin(Author)
Overlook Press
Published on 1. June 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-58567-161-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Great Classic of the Beat Generation Returns in all Its Trippy Brilliance; Back in print after many years, The Process has the dazzling impact of a drug-inspired dream, and since its publication more than thirty years ago, has established itself as a classic of 20th century modernism. Ulys O. Hanson is a black lecturer on the History of Slavery who finds himself in North Africa on a mysterious foundation grant that he never applied for. Setting off across the Sahara on what turns out to be a series of wild adventures, he first meets Hamid, a mad Moroccan who turns him on, takes him over and teaches him to pass as a Moor. Mya, the richest woman in creation, and her seventh husband, the hereditary Bishop of the Farout Islands, also cross his path with their plans to steal the Sahara and make the stoned professor the puppet Emperor of Africa. The Process is a journey on many levels. Within these levels, deeper meanings surface, and magic events take place or appear to take place.
Reviews / Votes
"The Process is a book you will want to read and re-read." - William S Burroughs; "His cut-up writing style was massively influential in the direction my own work took." - Michael StipeMore details
Edition
Reissue
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58567-161-8 (9781585671618)
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Person
Brion Gysin was born in England in 1916, became an artist, and in the Paris of the 1930s exhibited with Picasso, Dali, Duchamp and the Surrealists. After serving in the US army during World War II, he settled in Paris and Tangier where, with William Burroughs, he pioneered the 'cut-up' method of fiction. His work was a major influence on the Beat Generation of writers as well as musicians as diverse as Paul Bowles, Brian Jones, Iggy Pop and David Bowie.