the world's longest novel

CUTTING UP TWO BURROUGHS is inspired by the writings of two very different authors with the same last name – William S. Burroughs, author of NAKED LUNCH, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, best known for his science fiction and jungle adventure stories. Employing a rigorously process-based methodology, Mark Leach  exploits the cut-up method popularized by William Burroughs and other aleatoric techniques to create a science fiction of cold electric horror and burning excrement. Burroughsian text is stripped of its original emotion, meaning and metaphor. Reassembled words are shoveled out and spread across pages with minimal human intervention, revealing an intergalactic war zone ruled by Nebula apes, homoerotic extraterrestrials and The Fold-in Death. CUTTING UP TWO BURROUGHS embraces language as junk, as detritus, as raw material. The result is robot literature, a science fiction for machines.

Mark Leach is author of the 17-million-word “Marienbad My Love,” the world’s longest novel. “What he [Leach] does is the artistic equivalent of running newspaper ads, magazine articles, and tampon covers through a shredder, pouring glue on it, then taking a piss on it and calling that art.” – name withheld at request of the commentator

 

5.5" x 8.5"
Black & White on White paper
126 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1461041702
ISBN-10: 1461041708
BISAC: Art / Conceptual

 

 

CUTTING UP TWO BURROUGHS by Mark Leach is licensed under a

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