Name: Queer (25Th Anniversary Edition)
Price: 8.99 GBP
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Author: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780141189918

portada Queer (25Th Anniversary Edition)

Type

Physical Book

Author

William S. Burroughs

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780141189918

Edition No.

Queer (25Th Anniversary Edition)

William S. Burroughs (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "Queer (25Th Anniversary Edition)"

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, "Naked Lunch". Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, "Queer" follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, "Queer" is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.

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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