William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (/ˈbʌroʊz/; 5 Februari 1914 – 2 Agustus 1997 ) adalah seorang penulis dan seniman visual asal Amerika, yang secara luas dianggap sebagai figur utama dari Beat Generation dan penulis besar pascamodernisme yang memengaruhi budaya dan sastra populer.^[1][2][3] Burroughs menulis delapan belas novel, enam kumpulan cerita pendek dan empat kumpulan esai, dan lima buku wawancara dan korespondensinya telah diterbitkan; dia awalnya dikenal sebentar dengan nama pena William Lee. Dia juga berkolaborasi dalam proyek dan rekaman dengan banyak pemain dan musisi, membuat banyak penampilan dalam film, dan menciptakan serta memamerkan ribuan karya seni visual, termasuk "Seni Shotgun" miliknya yang terkenal.^[4]

William S. Burroughs
Burroughs (kanan, dan D. Woodard), 1997
Lahir	William Seward Burroughs II (1914-02-05)5 Februari 1914 St. Louis, Missouri, A.S.
Meninggal	2 Agustus 1997(1997-08-02) (umur 83) Lawrence, Kansas, A.S.
Nama pena	William Lee
Pekerjaan	Penulis
Almamater	Harvard University
Genre	Beat literature, fiksi paranoid
Aliran sastra	Beat Generation, Pascamodernisme
Karya terkenal	Junkie (1953) Naked Lunch (1959) The Nova Trilogy (1961–1964) Cities of the Red Night (1981) The Place of Dead Roads (1983)
Pasangan	Ilse Klapper (1937–1946) Joan Vollmer (1946–1951)
Anak	William S. Burroughs Jr.
Kerabat	William Seward Burroughs I (kakek) Ivy Lee (om)
Tanda tangan

Referensi

1. Severo, Richard (August 3, 1997). "William S. Burroughs Dies at 83; Member of the Beat Generation Wrote 'Naked Lunch'". The New York Times. Diakses tanggal August 28, 2021.
2. Campbell, James (August 4, 1997). "Struggles with the Ugly Spirit". the Guardian (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal August 28, 2021.
3. Stevens, Matthew Levi (2014). The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs. Mandrake of Oxford.
4. Jones, Josh (September 14, 2012). "William S. Burroughs Shows You How to Make "Shotgun Art"". www.openculture.com. Diakses tanggal March 9, 2021. There is no exact process. If you want to do shotgun art, you take a piece of plywood, put a can of spray paint in front of it, and shoot it with a shotgun or high powered rifle.

Pranala luar

• William S. Burroughs di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• (Inggris) William S. Burroughs di Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Conrad Knickerbocker (Fall 1965). "William S. Burroughs, The Art of Fiction No. 36". The Paris Review. Fall 1965 (35).
• William S. Burroughs audio documentary narrated by Iggy Pop
• William S. Burroughs Internet Database at Southeast Missouri State University
• International festivities for 50th anniversary of Naked Lunch
• A gallery of Burroughs book cover designs
• Artist Malcolm McNeill: On Beat Writer William Burroughs, Interview by George Laughead, August 2007
• William Burroughs and Tom Waits
• Interview excerpt from RE/Search
• Allen Ginsberg & William S. Burroughs, Last Public Appearance November 2, 1996, Lawrence, KS
• European Beat Studies Network
• William S. Burroughs: A Man Within site for Independent Lens on PBS
• William S. Burroughs: A Man Within di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• William S. Burroughs interviewed by Allen Ginsberg, March 1992 in Lawrence, Kansas, from Sensitive Skin magazine No. 8, published April 2012
• Anything but Routine: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of William S. Burroughs v 2.0 by Brian E.C. Schottlaender, UC San Diego, 2010
• Burroughs 101 by This American Life, January 30, 2015
• A finding aid to the William Burroughs and Brion Gysin writings, 1963–1973, 1997 in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution