Brion Gysin Here to Go Planet R-101 Quartet Books 1985 Beat Literature

Description

Brion Gysin—painter, writer, mystic, and close collaborator of William S. Burroughs—remains one of the most influential experimental figures of the twentieth century. Best known for helping develop the “cut-up” technique that reshaped Burroughs’s work in the late 1950s, Gysin moved fluidly between literature, visual art, music, and performance.

Here to Go: Planet R-101 is an extended interview conducted by Terry Wilson that functions as both memoir and manifesto. Moving through subjects as varied as the Beat Hotel in Paris, the dreamachine, occult experimentation, Morocco, painting, and Burroughs himself, the book captures Gysin’s restless intellect in his own voice. It stands as one of the most accessible introductions to a major yet often elusive figure of the Beat and post-Beat avant-garde.

An excellent copy of a cult classic of Beat-adjacent literature—of strong interest to collectors of Burroughs, Beat history, and twentieth-century experimental art.