William Burroughs died in August 1997, after a lifetime of notoriety. In his final years, he was writing only in his journals. The last nine months of his diaries are here, in Last Words, and they form a complex, rarely seen, personal portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with aging and death.
Con questo romanzo, ebbe a dire Norman Mailer, William Burroughs rivelò di essere «l’unico romanziere americano vivente a cui si possa plausibilmente attribuire genio». Scavando nelle proprie ferite con l’acume della paranoia e un’acrobatica inventiva stilistica, in Pasto nudo Burroughs disegna, sfrontato e perentorio, un ritratto dell’America all’acido fenico.
What Really Happened
"Last Words" von Burroughs ist eine "Autobiographie in Bruchstücken", die wichtige Lebensstationen, Begegnungen und Werke thematisiert. Er gilt als Vater der Pop-Literatur und erfand das Cut-up-Verfahren. Das Buch kombiniert Tagebuch, Erinnerungen, Traumsequenzen und politische Kommentare.