JUNKY Bardo. An Afterword: Erik “Tyrant” Gustafsson

An Afterword: Erik “Tyrant” Gustafsson

by Renée Vivien

and the vocals sound like they come from the mouth of the devil himself

A2 A Single Second Of Clarity

JUNKY Bardo. An Afterword: Erik “Tyrant” Gustafssonby William Burroughs Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed member of two socially despised under classes (a narcotics addict and a homosexual), Burroughs was writing as a trained