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Newest Review: ... and made it criminal, because this was great means of gaining power. Burroughs continualy advocated that 'addiction is an illness of the metabolism' and not a crime - and this provides a brief framework for many of his other ideas to hang about Burroughs, for me has an edge over the other Beat novelists, because he seems to be more intelligent, and though the work of Jack Kerouac and ... more |
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by Pulsebeat - written on 12.11.01 (Very useful, 44 readings)
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William Burroughs was a prominent figure in the Beat scene which evolved in 1950s post-war America. Most famous for his novel 'Naked Lunch', Burroughs also saw himself as something of a cultural commentator and eventually ended up advocating silence as the only way to get out of the hell-hole of existence in the modern world. However, during his life he wrote many books - some of which were good, some of which were paranoid, incomprehensible gibberish. Burroughs stands as somewhat of a cult figure in the latter 20th Century - bands such as Sonic Youth have eulogised him and he even recorded one of his works - 'The Priest They Called Him' - with Kurt ...
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