William Burroughs: literatura ectoplasmoide y mutaciones antropológicas. Del virus del lenguaje a la psicotopográfia del texto

Abstract

In the work of William Burroughs the individual is manipulated and transformed by the processes of contagion. Language is a virus that is played with great ease and conditions any human activity, accounting for its nature intoxicated. Burroughs texts proliferate without beginning or end as a plague, they reproduce and extend in unpredictable ways, are the product of a hybridization of diverse records that have nothing to do with traditional literary developments, their different ignored elements progression narration and appear to drift his novels unstructured time frame, their spatial coexistence of its meaning, and enabling them to be the reader who will finally structure them according to their own desires. In this situation viral Burroughs believes that pervades existence, the writer means that our goal is chaos. Chaos as a legendary place where there hybridity, the fusion of the contradictory, the monstrous double. The role of chaos in the writing will be fascinated by waste, by the verbal flow that leads to the collapse and lost, by the return to silence. The aspiration is "Find a language endemic, chaotic, that is a body language, which then becomes the acknowledged end of writing".