Fav 20th Century Fiction

Under the Volcano

By Malcolm Lowry

Set in tropical Mexico, this is the story of a man's obsessive need to drink himself to death.

The Master and Margarita

By Mikhail Bulgakov

Originally published: Dana Point, Calif.: Ardis, 1995.

My Education is William S. Burroughs's final collection, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, written over several decades and as personal and close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary -- conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex -- to the erotic, bizarre, and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book, dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves. "Mr. Burroughs has lost none of his irreverence or wit, but in recent years he has acquired an elegant, elegiac tone." – The New York Times

Fav 20th Century Fiction

Under the Volcano

The Master and Margarita

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My Education