Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Junkie (novel)" in English language version.
I had been a Burroughs agent early. Not a professional one. I fucked him up, by signing contracts that years later were ridiculous. I mean for Junkie. I don't think he gets much money out of it now, although it's sold in the millions.
The book is a Bildungsroman where Burroughs/Lee gets a thorough education in the laws of the junk universe and barely survives his testing. Despite what at first seem great differences, its closest contemporary analogue is Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
With the exception of one late scene, Junkie never actually describes the relationship of pusher to addict in terms of power, "the power to give or withhold" (140). This is an extraordinary refusal, not only because you would think such an economy is intrinsic to the relation, but given the ubiquity of addiction as Burroughs' defining model of control.
I had been a Burroughs agent early. Not a professional one. I fucked him up, by signing contracts that years later were ridiculous. I mean for Junkie. I don't think he gets much money out of it now, although it's sold in the millions.
The book is a Bildungsroman where Burroughs/Lee gets a thorough education in the laws of the junk universe and barely survives his testing. Despite what at first seem great differences, its closest contemporary analogue is Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
With the exception of one late scene, Junkie never actually describes the relationship of pusher to addict in terms of power, "the power to give or withhold" (140). This is an extraordinary refusal, not only because you would think such an economy is intrinsic to the relation, but given the ubiquity of addiction as Burroughs' defining model of control.
I had been a Burroughs agent early. Not a professional one. I fucked him up, by signing contracts that years later were ridiculous. I mean for Junkie. I don't think he gets much money out of it now, although it's sold in the millions.
The book is a Bildungsroman where Burroughs/Lee gets a thorough education in the laws of the junk universe and barely survives his testing. Despite what at first seem great differences, its closest contemporary analogue is Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
With the exception of one late scene, Junkie never actually describes the relationship of pusher to addict in terms of power, "the power to give or withhold" (140). This is an extraordinary refusal, not only because you would think such an economy is intrinsic to the relation, but given the ubiquity of addiction as Burroughs' defining model of control.