William S.Burroughs: A Man Within

Yony Leyser's flattering documentary on William S. Burroughs paints an intimate portrait of the many-layered writer.

As the admiring new documentary "A Man Within" shows, the writer William S. Burroughs was a taut collection of contradictions: a critic of law-and-order jingoism who was a gun fanatic (even after killing his wife in a game of William Tell gone terribly wrong), a prescient critic of invasive psychiatry who tried every pharmaceutical known to humanity. A key figure in the Beat movement, he stood apart from his literary peers by virtue of his blue-blood background, his age (he was a generation older than Ginsberg and Kerouac) and his unapologetic peculiarity. [...]

di Sheri Linden, articolo completo (1743 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 25 novembre 2010