My education - William S Burroughs

Dreams have always been a rich source of imagery in Burroughs' work. In this book they are a direct and powerful force. Hundreds of dreams - intense, vivid and visionary - form the spiralling core of a unique and haunting journey into perception. Exploring and embodying Burroughs' provocative ideas on writing, painting, consciousness and creativity, My Education is profoundly personal, and may be as close to a memoir as we will see.

'Burroughs, I like to think, is a writer who has given his psyche to literature to use as a strange test bed. . . A memoir of the fictional footprints of the spirit. . . My Education points the way forward' Will Self, Guardian

'My Education does not disappoint. . . His attempt is to relocate writer and reader at new thresholds to language and experience. It is manifest, in this precious little book' New Statesman and Society

'He injects his observations and descriptions with his own brand of unique, twisted humour. This is fine writing, but a strange education' Time Out