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Indlæser... Queer (1985)af William S. Burroughs
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. "Junkie" (or, as it's usually spelled, "Junky") & "Queer" were 2 amazing 1st bks for any author to write. Burroughs clearly identified himself in terms completely unacceptable to society at the time & wrote about the identity w/ a defiant realism that helped break thru society's stupid taboos like an ice-breaker. Thank goodness for William S. Burroughs. He will forever be an inspiration. I'm not sure what to say about the book. I enjoyed far more than I did Junky, and I guess that makes me a sinner in the literary world because everyone's up in arms about that book. I suppose the whole purpose of the book--the sort of sequel to Junky--is that once you drop the drug usage, you decide to have a lot of sex. I did notice how, since these books are based on Burroughs life--he did leave out the accidental murder of his wife. I guess a lot of it had to do with regret for doing it. I'm not sure. Originally written in 1952 but not published until 1985 due to its outspoken depiction of homosexual desire, Queer is an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a corus-cating political novel, Burroughs's only realist love story and a comic-grotesque fantasy that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Halvdokumentarisk roman af en af beatgenerationens store forfattere om hans ophold i Mexico omkring 1950. Skildrer hans kærlighedsforhold til en anden ung amerikaner, livet på barerne, narkotikamisbrug og jagten på det sagnomspundne stof "yage" i Amazonlandet. No library descriptions found. |
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Set mostly in Mexico City, the book centres around the unrequited passion of the Burroughs-character, Lee, for a younger American, Gene Allerton (in real life Lewis Marker). Lee pursues Allerton through the bars of Mexico City, and eventually persuades him to come on a quest into South America to search for the possibly mythical drug Yage, but it's clear that Allerton, whilst sometimes willing to be bought, is rather repelled than attracted by the older man. His condition for coming on the trip south is that he won't be expected to have sex with Lee more than twice a week. The narrative of the main text peters out somewhere in the rain forest, and then we see Lee in an epilogue back in Mexico City some time later, fruitlessly trying to find out where Allerton has gone.
The main interest of the book isn't really in this rather standard and dated obsession narrative, nor in the bizarrely awkward dialogues in gay bars, but rather in the "routines," the witty, surreal and very politically-incorrect monologues Lee comes out with when he's trying to deflect attention from his own problems. They are a joy, and flag the direction in which Burroughs' writing is going. ( )