Ebook {Epub PDF} Junky by William S. Burroughs

William Burroughs’ novel Junky is humorous and meticulously detailed in portraying its protagonist’s spiral to rock bottom. However, within the otherwise dispassionate narrative, readers encounter an undercurrent of pure need, with characters and narrator/protagonist Bill Lee at once repelled and empowered by the powers of. Junky reads like an autobiography and like the lives of Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, and later Tom Waits, it is sometimes had to extricate the real being of Burroughs from the fictionalized world that he created around himself, however, Junky comes off as an incredibly honest book that, although a bit deadpan at times, really has a heart and one can feel Burroughs's sensitivity for those who have Cited by: 9.  · Junky by William S. Burroughs. “Jive talk” is used more in connection with marijuana than with junk. In the past few years, however, the use of junk has spread into “hip,” or “jive talking” circles, and junk lingo has, to some extent, merged with “jive talk.”.

One such successful film that I watch every year at around this time is Nick Donkin and Melodie McDaniel's "The Junky's Christmas," based on the short story by William S. bltadwin.ru audio comes from a album by the hip-hop group The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprasy called "William S. Burroughs: Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales," a collaboration between them and Burroughs which. In , at the height of American conformism and anti-communist hysteria, William S. Burroughs published Junky, an irresistible strung-out ode to the joys and perversities of drug addiction. Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (originally titled Junk, later released as Junky) is a novel by American beat generation writer William S. Burroughs, initially published under the pseudonym William Lee in His first published work, it is semi-autobiographical and focuses on Burroughs' life as a drug user and dealer. It has come to be considered a seminal text on the.

In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of post-war America. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the novel, Bill Lee, see-saws between periods of addiction and rehab, using a panoply of substances including heroin, cocaine, marijuana, paregoric (a weak tincture of opium) and goof balls (barbiturate), amongst others. Like. “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.”. ― William S. Burroughs, Junky. William S. Burroughs's first novel describes the relentless travels of William Lee through the dizzying, drug-addled neighborhoods of 's New York, New Orleans, and Mexico City. Junky is an unabashedly honest account of the ghostly and extraordinary world of the heroin addict.