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Additional authors

1. Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
2. Goutier, Jean-Michel.
3. Nuttall, Jeff.
4. Pélieu, Claude.
5. Sanders, Ed.
6. Sanchez, José.

Description

1. 1 portfolio. illus.; 21 cm.

Summary

1. Pamphlets and broadsides in red, card chemise lettered in black on front with title and subtitles, and on back with contents.
2. Texts in French.

Series statement

1. Cahiers noirs du soleil ; \no. 3

Subject

1. Counterculture > France > Sources
2. Social history > 1945-
3. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > France
4. Popular culture
5. Anarchism > France > 20th century > Sources

Contents

1. Contents: 1. “Manifestes de la generation grise et invisible,” with contributions by William S. Burroughs, Claude Pélieu, Carl Weissner, Jeff Nuttall, and Ed Sanders (staple-bound, fold-out brochure, mimeographed, and with photographs and photographic collages ; 2. “La marchandise ou la vie,” comprising 5 items: the first, a single sheet folded vertically and horizontally into 8 panels, printed in columns, recto and verso, with essay by Jean-Jacques Lebel attacking consumerism as the enemy of social and economic justice, and of art, illustrated with decouppée and advertisement photographs from the Paris Metro and buses; the second through the fifth comprising single sheets printed on one side only, folded accordion-style into 8 panels, with a single forward symbol (>) at the lower right corner of the front panel of the first accordion-folded item, two symbols for the second, etc., each containing collage and decoupée photographs of graffiti-enhanced advertisements from the Paris metro and buses, satirizing sexual mores, consumerism, and bourgeois life, and promoting anarchist revolution ; 3. “Ligne noir,” a staple-bound brochure printed in dark blue, with stylized depiction of male genitalia on front wrapper, and containing poetry, a pair of thesis-antithesis essays, a manifesto, and cut-up texts, by ; 4. “Petit livre peau-rouge, a staple-bound pamphlet brochure with red wrapper, containing an essay on Native American cultures as written by someone under the influence of hallucinogens, illustrated with drawings by José Sanchez (b. 1938), a Venezuelan artist; 5. Unmentioned in chemise table of contents: “Le crepuscule des enculés” [the evening (i.e., demise) of the buggered], ending with the statement, “You are already forgotten” and signed “By an autonomous group,” printed in red on one side of a single sheet, folded vertically.

Call number

1. K-10 7523 no. 3

Note

1. Title from portfolio.

Indexed in (note)

1. Berg Coll. copies 1 and 2 in “Books and Magazine Items” section of “A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive” (London, 1973)

Title

1. L'Internationale hallucinex ...

Imprint

1. Paris, le Soleil noir, 1970.

Series

1. Cahiers noirs du soleil ; \no. 3

Indexed in:

1. Berg Coll. copies 1 and 2 in “Books and Magazine Items” section of “A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive” (London, 1973) No. 172

Local note

1. Berg Collection copies formerly owned by William S. Burroughs and acquired with the “Vaduz” Archive in 2005.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Berg Collection

Added author

1. Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Contributor
2. Goutier, Jean-Michel. Contributor
3. Nuttall, Jeff. Contributor
4. Pélieu, Claude. Contributor
5. Sanders, Ed. Contributor
6. Sanchez, José. Illustrator

LCCN

1. 72327075

Research call number

1. K-10 7523 no. 3