William S. Burroughs

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William Seward Burroughs II ; also known by his pen name William Lee; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997 was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who affected popular culture as well as literature. He is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century."[1] Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. Burroughs also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films.

He was born to a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri, grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Corporation, William Seward Burroughs I, and nephew of public relations manager Ivy Lee. Burroughs began writing essays and journals in early adolescence. He left home in 1932 to attend Harvard University, studying English and anthropology, but after being turned down by the Office of Strategic Services and U.S. Navy to serve in World War II, dropped out and spent the next twenty years working a variety of jobs. In 1943 while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the mutually influential foundation of what became the countercultural movement of the Beat Generation, while becoming involved in the drug addiction that affected him for the rest of his life.

Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict, as he lived throughout Mexico City, London, Paris, Berlin, the South American Amazon and Tangier in Morocco. Finding success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953), Burroughs is perhaps best known for his third novel Naked Lunch (1959), a work wrought with controversy that underwent a court case under the sodomy laws. With Brion Gysin, he also popularized the literary cut-up technique in works such as The Nova Trilogy (1961–64). In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1984 was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France. Jack Kerouac called Burroughs the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift," a reputation he owes to his "lifelong subversion"[1] of the moral, political and economic systems of modern American society, articulated in often darkly humorous sardonicism. J. G. Ballard considered Burroughs to be "the most important writer to emerge since the Second World War," while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius."

Burroughs had one child in 1947, William Seward Burroughs III, with his second wife Joan Vollmer, who died in 1951 in Mexico City after Burroughs accidentally shot her in the head while drunk, an event that deeply permeated all of his writings. Burroughs died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas after suffering a heart attack in 1997.

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生日

1914年02月05日

William S. Burroughs的電影作品

年份	電影	職務
2024	QUEER Novel	Novel
2022	Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious 飾演 Self (archive footage)	飾演 Self (archive footage)
2018	請服藥飾演 Self (archive footage)	飾演 Self (archive footage)
2017	Uncle Howard 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
2012	毫無緣由飾演 Self (archive footage)	飾演 Self (archive footage)
2012	The Beat Hotel 飾演 Self (archive footage)	飾演 Self (archive footage)
2011	Fix: The Ministry Movie 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
2009	FLicKeR 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
2000	Condo Painting 飾演 Self (archive footage)	飾演 Self (archive footage)
1999	Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles 飾演 Self (archive footage)	飾演 Self (archive footage)
1998	生命之書飾演 Preacher on Radio (voice)	飾演 Preacher on Radio (voice)
1997	心靈捕手 In Memory Of	In Memory Of
1994	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1991	裸體午餐 Novel	Novel
1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway 飾演 Butler	飾演 Butler

1989	Heavy Petting 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1989	迷幻牛郎 Screenplay 飾演 Tom the Priest	Screenplay 飾演 Tom the Priest
1989	Twister 飾演 Man in Barn	飾演 Man in Barn
1989	Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets 飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1985	It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen 飾演 Mafioso	飾演 Mafioso
1984	巴勒斯：一部電影飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1982	詩歌行動飾演 Self	飾演 Self
1976	Une semaine dans la vie de camarades 演員	演員
1966	Chappaqua 飾演 Opium Jones	飾演 Opium Jones