Ancient gonzo wisdom is, as the title suggests, a portentous distilled from the whole experience that someone as wonderfully runaway and incisive as Hunter S. Thompson is able to treasure throughout a life plagued with the most far-fetched adventures and battles and more inconceivable triumphs. A lesson of boldness and vitalism, rigor and commitment.

This voluminous selection of interviews with the author of Fear and disgust in Las Vegas offers us a faithful and multifaceted portrait of the father of gonzo journalism (a thousand times imitated, none exceeded or equaled), compulsive drinker, lover of weapons, hedonist drug user, irreverent vassal of the lords of karma and, above all, great writer and survivor of himself. These interviews cover several decades of Thompson's life and touch all topics, from the divine to the human, that one can associate with Dr. Gonzo; These texts oscillate between the delirious and the corrosive, between the anger at the political situation of the moment (from Nixon to Reagan, from Bush Sr. to Bush Jr., from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War) and the disenchantment to contemplate how he left losing everything hard won in the sixties, but showing at all times the precision of the visceral. They also make up a rich anecdote that highlights mythical episodes lived with characters as diverse as Allen Ginsberg, the Angels of Hell or Richard Nixon himself.

Considering that Thompson considered the distinction between fiction and nonfiction a nineteenth century affair, we can assure you that this book, compendium of experiences, memories and opinions, can be read as a wild, passionate and exciting novel worthy of its protagonist.