Brion Gysin collection, 1939-1980.

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Brion Gysin collection, 1939-1980.

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The collection consists of papers relating to Brion Gysin from 1939-1980. The papers include correspondence, sketchbooks and watercolor drawings created by Gysin during his time in Morocco, newspaper clippings and magazine articles collected by or about Gysin, journals, photographs, and financial records. The correspondence contains letters from various friends and family members to Gysin, as well as a small amount of correspondence written by Gysin. The collection also contains a number of manuscripts and typescripts of Gysin's works, both published and unpublished, including Gysin's notes for The Process, as well as draft fragments of an early typescript and a final typescript of the novel, mock-ups for its publication, and a synopsis. Other significant works include typescripts for novels entitled The Mountains of Paris and Hello: Yes: Hello, a synopsis of William Burrough's Naked Lunch, and numerous drafts of poems and scripts. The collection also contains various journals which document day-to-day activities from 1968-1973; as well as notebooks containing descriptions of his travels in Spain and Africa. Of particular interest are two notebooks which he kept while staying at the Beat Hotel in Paris in 1962-1963, and the original Dreamachine that Gysin co-invented with Ian Sommerville.

6.5 linear ft. (11 boxes and 4 oversized papers (OP))

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7007487

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Sommerville, Ian, 1951-

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Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997

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William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American experimental novelist, "beat" poet, and cultural icon. From the guide to the William S. Burroughs Letter, undated, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), American novelist, essayist, writer of experimental fiction. A primary member of the Beat generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected postwar popular culture as well as literature. From the ...

Gysin, Brion.

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Brion Gysin was born on January 19, 1916, in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. Gysin first established himself as a painter, attending the Sorbonne from 1934-1935 and associating with figures such as Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and Salvador Dali. In 1935 he participated in the Surrealist Drawing Exhibitions, although his work was withdrawn by Surrealist founder Andre Breton. Gysin also attended the University of Bordeaux from 1949-1952 and Archivos de India at the University of Seville from 1952-195...