Junky - 50th Anniversary: Definitive Edition

William Burroughs

Penguin Books

2003

210 páginas

7h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780142003169

Português Brasileiro

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed member of two socially-despised under classes (a narcotics addict and a homosexual), Burroughs was writing as a trained anthropologist when he unapologetically described a way of life - in New York, New Orleans, and Mexico City - that by the 1940's was already demonized by the artificial anti-drug hysteria of an opportunistic bureaucracy and a cynical, prostrate media. For this fiftieth-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly recreated the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts and places the book's contents against a lively historical background in a comprehensive introduction. Here as well, for the first time, are Burroughs' own unpublished introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages, as well as auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others.

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O manual do caos do cotidiano de um viciado.

Basicamente é o diário de um cara que se mete de cabeça no mundão das drogas, roubos e tudo que não presta. O Burroughs, com uma pegada bem direta e sem rodeios, conta como ele se viciou, as tretas com a lei e as desventuras da vida de dependente. É uma mistura de autobiografia com manual de como se enfiar em merda até o pescoço, só que sem glamour, só na real. E no meio disso, ele ainda dá uns toques sobre o sistema, a sociedade e tudo que ele acha uma porcaria, mas com aquele estilo "tô aqui, vivendo o caos, e dane-se".