The Process (novel)

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The Process

1987 Overlook Press edition.
Author Brion Gysin
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date 1969
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-87951-297-0 (1987 ed.)

The Process is the title of a novel by Brion Gysin which was first published in 1969. Gysin was a painter and composer, and also collaborated with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs on many occasions. The Process was his first full-length novel.

Described by The Overlook Press (which published a posthumous edition in 1987) as "a powerfully psychological novel", The Process tells the story of a professor named Ulys O. Hanson who sets out on a pilgrimage across the Sahara Desert which turns out to be a hallucinatory experience.

The Process is also the name given to a 1960's magical organization.