by William S. Burroughs · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433460165
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Junky is a novel by American writer William S. Burroughs, published in 1953. The novel is based on the author's experiences as a heroin addict and tells the story of a junkie in the 1940s and 1950s in New York, New Orleans, and Mexico. The novel is considered one of the most important works of beat literature and a classic of drug literature.
William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced both underground and popular culture and literature. Much of Burroughs's work is highly experimental and features unreliable narrators. Also noted as semi-autobiographical, his work often drew from his experiences with drug addiction, and featured his various places of residence as settings in much of his work. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique. His writing also engaged frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, constant preoccupations in both his fiction and real life.
