Name: Queer (in English)
Price: 13.92 USD
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Author: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780140083897

Type

Physical Book

Author

William S. Burroughs

Publisher

Penguin

Year

1987

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0140083898

ISBN13

9780140083897

Queer (in English)

William S. Burroughs (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "Queer (in English)"

For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee's outrageous "routines" — brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow Naked Lunch —yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding.In his extraordinary introduction, Burroughs reflects on the shattering events in his life that lay behind this work.

William S. Burroughs

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William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) es una figura legendaria de la literatura norteamericana de este siglo, un escritor comparado con Villon, Rimbaud y Genet. Tanto su vida como su obra, de un pesimismo total y un sombrío sentido del humor, reflejan una actitud de rebelión permanente contra la sociedad convencional. Homosexual, drogadicto durante muchos años, amigo e ídolo de Kerouac y Ginsberg, se le considera el gran «gurú» de la generación beat, pese a su negativa a ser incluido en ella.

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