Saint Louis, 1914 – Kansas, 1997. Nacido en el seno de una familia adinerada, Burroughs creció rodeado por el lujo. Tras estudiar literatura inglesa, medicina y antropología, y permanecer durante algún tiempo en el Ejército, se mudó a Nueva York, donde desarrolló una fuerte adicción a la heroína que se prolongó durante más de quince años. En su periodo como drogadicto, Burroughs residió en Texas, Nueva Orleans, Tánger, París, Londres, México y otros países iberoaméricanos. Burroughs influenció el mundo del rock desde Bowie a Cobain y a un cierto tipo de cine y pintura. Junto a otros poetas representantes de la contracultura como Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kérouac, Gregory Corso y Lawrence Ferlinghetti, simbolizaba la vida bohemia, la rebeldía contra el poder establecido y el inconformismo, bandera de la generación beat. Sus novelas más conocidas son Yonqui (1953) y El almuerzo desnudo (1959), escrita durante su estancia en Marruecos y publicada en París, lo propulsó a la fama y al oprobio: fue censurada en EEUU durante siete años.
40 Ebooks by William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs: The Adding Machine
‘Sheer pleasure. . . . Wonderfully entertaining.’—Chicago Sun-Times
Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as ‘possibly the only American writer of genius, ‘ William S. Burroughs …
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William S. Burroughs: Junky
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
In his debut novel,
Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using …
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William S. Burroughs: Word Virus
With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his an …
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William S. Burroughs: The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitab …
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William S. Burroughs: The Ticket That Exploded
In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’s grand “cut-up” trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Poli …
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William S. Burroughs: The Soft Machine
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing …
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William S. Burroughs: Nova Express
The Soft Machine introduced us to the conditions of a universe where endemic lusts of the mind and body pray upon men, hook them, and turn them into beasts. Nova Express takes William S. Burroughs’ …
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William S. Burroughs: Last Words
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our t …
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William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, i …
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William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tal …
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William S. Burroughs: Speed and Kentucky Ham
A pair of autobiographical novels with “a compelling narrative that balances the methedrine horrors with the outcast’s romantic search for identity" (Rolling Stone). William S. …
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€18.75
William S. Burroughs: Don’t Hide the Madness
Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the …
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William S. Burroughs: Rub Out the Words
This major collection of William Burroughs’ letters gives an unprecedented insight into one of America’s most incisive and influential writers, at a time when his work was at its most experimental …
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William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and …
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William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg: Yage Letters
William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called ‘Yage’ which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be ‘the …
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€11.99
William S. Burroughs: The Wild Boys
In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and …
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William S. Burroughs: Exterminator!
A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man s face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays …
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William S. Burroughs: Job
William Burroughs work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his …
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William S. Burroughs: Junky
Burroughs’ first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. …
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William S. Burroughs: Queer
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 …
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William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch
A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language,
Naked Lunch is an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in …
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€8.99
William S. Burroughs: Nova Express
The diabolical Nova Criminals now include the nightmarish characters of Sammy the Butcher, Iron Claws, Izzy the Push and the Brown Artist, and are poised to wreak untold destruction on the world with …
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William S. Burroughs: Interzone
Interzone portrays the development of Burroughs’s mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. His outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades of …
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William S. Burroughs: Cities of the Red Night
An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world”s population is infected with a radioactive …
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William S. Burroughs: Western Lands
A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs’s final novel is poignant and melancholic. Blending war films and pornography, and referencing Kafka and …
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William S. Burroughs: My Education
My Education is Burroughs’s last novel, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, collected over several decades and as close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams …
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William S. Burroughs: Cat Inside
Both heartwarming and meditative, The Cat Inside explores not only the personal relationship between Burroughs and cats, but the deeper relationship of cats with mankind, which Burroughs traces back …
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William S. Burroughs: Letters 1945-59
Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters gradually deepen in substance and style. Burroughs’s letters show the development of …
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William S. Burroughs: Ticket That Exploded
Inspector Lee and the Nova Police have been forced to engage the Nova Mob in one final battle for the planet. This is Burroughs’s nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of Johnny Yen’s …
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William S. Burroughs: The Soft Machine
With a dangerous blend of chemistry and magic, secret agent Lee has the ability to change bodies – his own, or with anyone he chooses. Also able to time travel, he finds himself forced to use his ski …
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William S. Burroughs: Place of Dead Roads
This surreal fable, set in America’s Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving …
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William S. Burroughs: Finger
‘He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.’A deliberately severed finger, a junky’s Christmas miracle and a …
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Jack Black: You Can’t Win
You Can’t Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey’s Amok Press, featuring an introduction …
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Denton Welch: In Youth Is Pleasure
Keenly observed autobiographical fiction and journal entries from acclaimed writer Denton Welch, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs “In Youth Is Pleasure” recounts …
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William S. Burroughs: Ah Puch está aquí y otros textos
En 1970 William Burroughs y el artista Malcolm Mc Neill comenzaron un pequeño proyecto conjunto, un cómic titulado The Unspeakable Mr. Hart, que se publicó en Cyclops, la primera revista inglesa de …
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William S Burroughs: Dead Fingers Talk
First published in 1963 and representing Burroughs’s literary breakthrough in the UK, Dead Fingers Talk is, in the words of Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, "a prophetic work of haunting power, …
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William S. Burroughs: Pranzul dezgolit
Singurul romancier american contemporan despre care se poate spune că are geniu. Norman Mailer Sondând limitele relației dintre artă și obscenitate, Prânzul dezgolit este una dintre cărțile ce au red …
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William S. Burroughs: Queer
„Una dintre cele mai zguduitoare confesiuni scrise vreodată.’ Allen Ginsberg Scris între anii 1951 și 1953, dar publicat abia în 1985, legendarul roman al lui Burroughs este o enigmă — atât un autopo …
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€6.24
William S. Burroughs: Queer
The definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, set to be adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino …
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€18.99
William S. Burroughs: Junky
Scris la îndemnul lui Allen Ginsberg, în America anilor de după război, când până și a vorbi despre droguri era o infracțiune, romanul de debut al lui William S. Burroughs, considerat „calea de acces …
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