Le Tanger expérimental de William Burroughs

Abstract

It is in Tangier, town where was written Naked lunch, that William Burrroughs really 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 was established with obscure forces that the man who accidentally killed his own wife few years earlier, was seeking to encounter.

Keywords

• Tangier
• labyrinth
• drugs
• globalization
• Burroughs (William)