Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym william lee in 1953. William leenicknamed billis a thirtyyearold white male living in new york city who begins using morphine and develops an addiction to narcoticsor junk. February 5, 1914 august 2, 1997 was an american novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. Burroughs chose to use the pseudonym william lee, lee being his mother s maiden name, for the writing credit. If public schools really wanted kids to abstain from injecting needles in their arms they should drop d. When i say junk i mean opium or derivatives of opium. Burroughs s first novel describes the relentless travels of william lee through the dizzying, drugaddled neighborhoods of 1940 s new york, new orleans, and mexico city. Analyzes the cycle of addiction through the eyes of a former heroin addict. For this definitive edition, renowned burroughs scholar oliver harris has gone back to archival typescripts to recreated the author s original text word by word. In 1953, at the height of american conformism and anticommunist hysteria, william s. Pdf tarzan of the apes book by edgar rice burroughs free.
Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym william lee. Burroughs 1999 last words 2000 and the hippos were boiled in their tanks 2008 junky the definitive text of junk william s. Burroughs, 9780241956786, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. William burroughs s earliest novel, junky, has just been published in the first complete and unexpurgated edition. Junkie alternately titled junky is a 1953 semiautobiographical novel by william s. Junky is an unabashedly honest account of the ghostly and extraordinary world of the heroin addict.
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Until now, junky had been issued only in an ace paperback in 1953, and the author was given as one william lee. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are william s. It s safe to say that the book wouldnt have seen the light of day if allen ginsberg hadnt taken burroughs under his wing and edited. Burroughs, is a seductive story set at the inception of the hip subculture in america. A primary figure of the beat generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative.
Free download or read online tarzan of the apes pdf epub book. The narrative is fiction, but it is based on facts of my experience. It was his first published novel and has come to be considered a. This study guide consists of approximately 38 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of junky. If youre a fan of william burroughs work, a complete reading of junkie, by william burroughs himself, has recently appeared online, for free. Nominated for a pulitzer prize, the book had made algren an instant celebrity in 1950, and his depiction of frankie machine, the lowlife, poker.
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Burroughs wrote junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places. The first edition of the novel was published in april 15th 1953, and was written by william s. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of it s content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Burroughs was a primary figure of the beat generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs, quote from junky the conversations had a nightmare flatness, talking dice spilled in the tube metal chairs, human aggregates disintegrating in cosmic inanity, random events in a dying universe where everything is exactly what it appears to be, and no other relation than juxtaposition is possible. The burroughs like protagonist of the novel, bill lee. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading junky. To the original junk manuscript in this book i have written what i know about junk and the people who use it. Burroughs did, in fact, start using heroin in 1944 and within a year, he was an addict. Six years before he published his breakthrough novel, naked lunch 1959, william s. With our online resources, you can find junky william s burroughs or just about any type of ebooks, for any type of.
The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect. William burroughs the original junkie books the guardian. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 324 pages and is available in paperback format. You might say it was a travel book more than anything else. Burroughs would go on to be one of the most innovative and controversial writers of the twentieth century. The original cover of junkie by william lee second, although the bulk of junky was in place before the killing, burroughs continued to revise the text at. Confessions of an unredeemed drug addict originally titled junk, later released as junky is a novel by american beat generation writer william s. That edition was a peculiar tandem volume if you turned it over and read it back to front, it also contained. Louis, missouri on february 5, 1914, to laura lee and mortimer burroughs, grandson and namesake of william s. Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Burroughs wrote junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone.
Burroughs virtual junky diary is a trip through the author s own selfinflicted and selfinjected personal hell. It is a way of life william burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the beats and author of naked lunch, relates with unflinching realism the addict s life. Burroughs broke into the literary scene with junky sometimes also called junkie, a candid, semiautobiographical account of an unredeemed drug addict. February 5, 1914 august 2, 1997 was an american writer and visual artist. It is a way of life william burroughs, legendary drug. In his debut novel, junky, burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of postwar america. Queer william s burroughs recognizing the way ways to get this ebook queer william s burroughs is additionally useful. The story follows a man at odds with american mainstream culture into a quest for spiritual meaning via heroin. Both junkie and narcotic agent have covers of beautiful garishness, featuring s damsels in distress. He was a founding father of the beat generation, whose companions included allen ginsberg, gregory corso, and jack kerouac. Burroughs introduction when i lived in mexico city at the end of the 1940 s, it was a city of one million people, with clear sparkling air and the sky that special shade of blue that goes so well with circling vultures, blood and sandthe raw menacing pitiless mexican blue.
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