"The only male heir of the Burroughs Machine Corps St. Louis Missouri. Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard with 37 post-graduate studies in anthropology and psychology at Columbia. For the last fifteen years I was known as a drug addict and homosexual " 1.
This is the description that made him William Seward Burroughs , el hombre invisible it was called to Tangier, an editor of the Chicago Review who asked a biography petty. At that time, the late fifties, Burroughs had assets of only one book published in 1953 under the pseudonym William Lee, Junkie , and steering a middle course between the excesses that for decades formed the pillars of the founding his lifestyle, in which relations between men than heterosexual replace "because there is homosexual sex in a relationship with death, a report which, of course, omit the intermediate stage of the reproductive birth", where the substitute drugs food because "drugs are a means of annihilation staff in a world facing annihilation of the people " 2. Its existence was carried out in full in the sign of a constant sense of impatience with the control, in any form could occur. An innate thirst for adventure, heroism and young vitality led him to follow the paths of the heartland of America, running into the car and firing blindly on chicken farms. The violence and a strong attitude all'anticonformismo accompanied him to the last year, when he decided to retire in isolation almost mystical and cathartic probably in the very land that had given birth, the deep heart of America, whose gravitational pull was attempted to escape for a lifetime wandering the world, from one side of the Atlantic.
the following pages we will try to map the existence of Burroughs, a very rugged territory, a land barely touched by the inhospitable border line of the literature of empire, a sort of alien enclaves that fed and continues to accommodate legions of dissidents, revolutionaries and expatriate professionals. We will do this by taking into consideration its basic text (prototype anti-novel), or Naked Lunch (1959), and the subsequent trilogy Nova, composed in sequence The soft machine (1961), The ticket that exploded (1962) and Nova Express (1964), continuation and conclusion of a speech devoted to the algebra of need. It should perhaps remember that this path does not exhaust the multiplicity of views and visions that give an almost metaphysical works of Burroughs. What follows, then, is not much more than a tourist trip led in circles of hell. The essence will remain unknown and at the same time incomprehensible unless you be immersed in the pages full of horror, fear, uneasiness, which map the geometry of this great performer existential restlessness postmodern.
0 comments:
Post a Comment