The Right Kind of Pain
Mark Greif: The Velvet Underground, 22 March 2007
The Velvet Underground
by Richard Witts.
Equinox, 171 pp., £10.99, September 2006,9781904768272 Show More
by Richard Witts.
Equinox, 171 pp., £10.99, September 2006,
“... similar to those to be had from ‘underground’ books in the hip-Gothic tradition of Sade, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, Hubert Selby Jr and whoever serves as a present-day inheritor (Chuck Palahniuk?). Reed rewrote these books, in essence, as songs. The most famous literal example is ‘Venus in Furs’, a musical setting of a book ... ”