Le Tanger expérimental de William Burroughs

Xavier Garnier (1)

1 Ecritures de la modernité

It is in Tangier, town were was written Naked Lunch, that William Burroughs became a writer. My hypothesis is that this town, with its specific topography and its status of international zone, induced a crystallization of the writing. Tangier is not only for Burroughs a town where homosexual prostitution and drugs traffic are easy, it is a place where a contact wa established with obscure forces, that the man who accidentally killed his own wife few years earlier, was seeking to encounter.

Mots clés: labyrinthe; Tanger; William Burroughs; globalization; drugs; Tangier; labyrinth; drogues; mondialisation

Domaines: Littératures

Xavier Garnier. Le Tanger expérimental de William Burroughs. Itinéraires. Littérature, textes, cultures, 2013, 3, pp.35-45. ⟨10.4000/itineraires.924⟩. ⟨halshs-01069084⟩