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The Soft Machine: The Restored Text

William S. Burroughs

First published 2014
Publisher Penguin Books
Format Trade Paperback
Type Novel
Pages 336
Price £9.99
ISBN 9780141189789

The first volume of the author's "cut-up trilogy." Burroughs drafted the manuscript, cut it into slips, and chose the slips at random from a hat, leaving the narrative in that order. Burroughs repurposed the technique from the Dadaist movement of the 1920s.

Data from Amazon UK as of 2015-03-16/2022-10-10 Edited by Oliver Harris

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text Cover 2014 Grove Press Trade Paperback Novel liii+272
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text Cover 2016 Blackstone Audio digital audio download Novel