{"id":1840,"date":"2017-12-27T21:45:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T21:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavoixdelarturbain.com\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2019-08-14T17:03:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:03:52","slug":"streetart-paris-smile-william-burroughs-butte-cailles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavoixdelarturbain.com\/2017\/12\/27\/streetart-paris-smile-william-burroughs-butte-cailles\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait de William S. Burroughs, addict, beatnik – Streetart par Smile, Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c9trange destin que celui de William S. Burroughs (1924-1997), figure embl\u00e9matique de la litt\u00e9rature am\u00e9ricaine de l’apr\u00e8s Seconde Guerre Mondiale et dont j’ai d\u00e9couvert la biographie avec ce pochoir de Smile.<\/p>\n

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C’est aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s d’Allen Ginsberg et Jack Kerouac, que Burroughs contribue \u00e0 l’\u00e9mergence du mouvement de la Beat Generation.
\nEntre continuit\u00e9 libertaire am\u00e9ricaine et d\u00e9couverte des pens\u00e9es orientales via les auteurs europ\u00e9ens, le mouvement Beatnik se caract\u00e9rise par le rejet des codes de la narration traditionnelle, du mat\u00e9rialisme, de l’ordre \u00e9tabli et est souvent associ\u00e9 \u00e0 la l’exploration de l’immense territoire am\u00e9ricain (Sur la route de Jack Kerouac, 1957), la lib\u00e9ration sexuelle, l’exp\u00e9rimentation de drogues, pr\u00e9curseur en ce sens du mouvement hippy.<\/p>\n

La vie de Burroughs semble \u00eatre une illustration du mouvement litt\u00e9raire auquel il a contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 donner naissance. N\u00e9 au sein d’une famille ais\u00e9e, \u00e9tudiant d’Harvard, devenu junkie, h\u00e9ro\u00efnomane, fr\u00e9quentant les cercles alternatifs de son temps, tuant sa deuxi\u00e8me femme lors d’une s\u00e9ance de jeu \u00ab\u00a0Guillaume Tell\u00a0\u00bb au cours d’une soir\u00e9e alcoolis\u00e9e, et en m\u00eame temps c\u00e9l\u00e9br\u00e9 pour son g\u00e9nie litt\u00e9raire.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict […]. The questions, of course, could be asked: Why did you ever try narcotics? Why did you continue using it long enough to become an addict? You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in the other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity. I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked. Most addicts I have talked to report a similar experience. They did not start using drugs for any reason they can remember. They just drifted along until they got hooked. If you have never been addicted, you can have no clear idea what it means to need junk with the addict\u2019s special need. You don\u2019t decide to be an addict. One morning you wake up sick and you\u2019re an addict.\u201d (Junky, Prologue, 1953)<\/p>\n

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Streetart par Smile<\/a> \u00e0 la Butte aux Cailles, portrait de William S. Burroughs<\/a><\/p>\n

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