Queer

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William S. Burroughs

Verlag:

Ingram Publishers Services

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: K9PG9PG

EAN: 9780802160560

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 23.06.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 25.25

Beschreibung

The definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, set to be adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer. is a haunting tale of possession and exorcism. Both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, it is both Burroughs’s 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, the protagonist of Burroughs’s debut novel Junky, a man afflicted with acute heroin withdrawal and romantic yearnings for Eugene Allerton. As Lee breaks down over the course of his hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest. Now a cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, this edition of Queer. features a contextualizing introduction by the eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

William S. Burroughs

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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