About the Author:
William S. Burroughs est, avec Jack Kerouac et Allen Ginsberg, l’une des trois grandes figures de la Beat Generation apparue aux États-Unis dans les années 1950. Hormis son premier chef-d’œuvre, Le Festin nu, publié aux Éditions Gallimard (et adapté au cinéma par David Cronenberg), presque toute son œuvre a paru aux Éditions Christian Bourgois.
From Publishers Weekly:
In an introduction, Burroughs observes that he wrote this heretofore unpublished picaresque novel in 1951, well before Naked Lunch established his reputation. He reveals that the book had its genesis in a terrible event: his accidental shooting to death of his wife, Joan, a tragedy that released the black wellsprings of his talent. The narrative recounts the hallucinatory life of William Lee, an American in Mexico City in the 1940s and his journey to Ecuador with his reluctant lover, Eugene Allerton, in search of the drug Yage. Lee is Burroughs after the killing, weighed down by guilt, drugs, lust and despair; seeking lethe. Admirerers will find an early exposition of Burroughs's later themes here, as well as a strain of gallows humor. The work is almost cinematic as it unfolds; the author is not yet experimenting with the meaninglessness of language, and, indeed it is thin in both thought and expression. This is the first of a series of Burroughs's works to be issued by Viking. Foreign rights: Andrew Wylie Agency. November
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