Queer William Burroughs Pdf Updated Jun 2026

Set in 1950s Mexico City, the novel follows (Burroughs' recurring alter-ego) through a booze-soaked expatriate scene.

Burroughs famously claimed he could not read the manuscript for 30 years because of the "emotional trauma" it caused him. queer william burroughs pdf

William S. Burroughs’s (written in the early 1950s but published in 1985) is a raw, short novel that explores the obsessive pursuit of love, the agony of addiction, and the birth of his literary voice. Set in 1950s Mexico City, the novel follows

Queer is a vital, painful, and often overlooked entry in Burroughs’s oeuvre—more soul-baring than the beat jokes of On the Road and more coherent than his later experimental work. As a PDF, it’s a convenient but ethically gray gateway. If you find a clean copy, dive in for the prose; stay for the haunting closing line: “There is something very wrong with me.” Burroughs’s (written in the early 1950s but published