"My Education" is Burroughs' last novel, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, collected over several decades and as close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary - conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex - to the erotic, bizarre and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs' own fiction, in this book dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (San Luis, 1914 - Lawrence 1997) es una figura legendaria de la literatura norteamericana del siglo XX. Novelista, ensayista y crítico social, renovador del lenguaje narrativo y miembro destacado, junto a Ginsberg y Kerouac, de la Generación Beat, pese a su negativa a ser incluido en ella. Su obra es una de las más radicalmente innovadoras de la literatura contemporánea, una mordaz crítica a los sistemas de control, el lenguaje y lo normativo. Su legado narrativo es enorme; entre sus novelas destacan El almuerzo desnudo (1959), La máquina blanda (1961), Nova Express (1964) y Los chicos salvajes (1971).