WILLIAM BURROUGHS

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William Seward Burroughs was an
American novelist, visual artist,
essayist, and social critic. Renovator
of narrative language and one of the
main figures of the Beat Geneation, a
label with which he never agreed.

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02 was born into a
Burroughs
wealthy family. His grandfather
nvented an adding machine that
would serve to found the
Burroughs Adding Machines, a

company that still exists,

althought it was renamed the
Burroughs Corporation before
the merger that would make it 03
Unisys. He finished his studies at Harvard
University in 1936. As a child, he
discover his homosexual inclinations
and his passion for firearmes , which
accompanied him throught his life.

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After a terribly self-destructive

period during the fifties after a
first foray into pulp
literature(this is the case of
junkie), he devoted himself from
the sixties to writing quite
continuously. 05
His work has an importante
autobiographical charge, and it
reflects his addiction to various
substances, such as heroin.
Experimention, surrealism and satire
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