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Title	:	The Western Lands (The Red Night Trilogy #3)
Author	:	William S. Burroughs
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 258 pages
Published	:	1988 by Penguin Books (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Novels. Science Fiction

The Western Lands (The Red Night Trilogy #3)

William S. Burroughs

Paperback | Pages: 258 pages

Rating: 4.06 | 1832 Users | 85 Reviews

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The Western Lands is the eagerly awaited new novel by the most visionary American novelist of the twentieth century–a haunting Book of the Dead for the nuclear age.
Every new work from the pen of William S. Burroughs is an important literary event. This is especially so in the case of The Western Lands. For in this novel, Burroughs completes a trilogy that began with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads, with a profound, revealing, and often astounding meditation on the themes of mortality, loneliness, nuclear peril–and the inextinguishable hope for an existence beyond bodily death.
The symbolic vehicle Burroughs uses here is ancient Egyptian mythology, a long-standing interest of his. "The Western Lands" of the title are the territory to which the Egyptians believed the souls of the dead made a hazardous pilgrimage in their quest for true immortality. The questers–Joe the Dead, Kim Carsons, the scribe Neferti, Hassan i Sabbah, the Old Man of the Mountain–travel through an unmistakably Burroughs-esque universe of appalling danger and otherworldly beauty–now the back alleys of ancient Egypt, now bombed-out Berlin, now the Old West of the shootists. Their hallucinatory journeys express the author's belief that only through facing the most extreme dangers and testing the possibilities of biological mutation can man escape a dead-end world of blasted dreams and atomic finale. And presiding over all is the haunting figure of "the old writer," who shares in the fate of his characters in being finally unable to write himself out of Time, and into Space.
The Western Lands continues and extends one of the great literary odysseys of our time, adding to Burroughs's awesome literary style and black humor chilling touches of elegy and autobiography. It is at once Burroughs's most personal and most universal work, yet another masterwork from the reigning genius of the American literary avant-garde.

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Original Title:	The Western Lands
ISBN:	0140094563 (ISBN13: 9780140094565)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Red Night Trilogy #3

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something about this wounded me. perhaps it was Bill pulling away the final veil into his beliefs and mythology. the sadness? the endless pursuit and path to something that we can always never have.

The conclusion to Burroughss The Red Night trilogy, as well as his final novel, is a sweat-soaked heroin fever dream chronicling several pilgrimages into the outer reaches of the mind and the netherworld. Deemed as a Book of the Dead for the nuclear age, Burroughss vision evokes a meditation of mortality and nuclear destruction. Both beautiful and shocking, dangerous and familiar, and obscene and humorous, this book seamlessly blends reality and fiction. Personal and alien, Burroughs avant-garde



William S. Burroughs is one of my visionary writers. That means I believe he did something like what the prophets did at one time. They saw and wrote things that were not entirely comprehensible, but those writings reveal things about life and were usually a critique of society. Other writers I consider to be in this category are Plato, William Blake, John Milton, Arthur Schopenhauer, Henry David Thoreau, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Philip K. Dick.(view spoiler)[This book begins with

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The perfect book: as wise as it is wise assy, downright hilarious. WSB's timing got so much better as he got older; this is certainly his best book and a viable handbook to the after life. Methinks it the very best book I've ever read.

His most beautiful/eloquent prose and a great ending to the late trilogy