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This article has as purpose to give account of how the American writer William Burroughs assumes aesthetically the problem of addictive consumption of drugs. To this end literary figures of two novels are used: Junkie and Naked Lunch, because in these works is where the problem of drugs intake is reflected on more emphatically. Through a tour of some aspects of the novels it is possible to uncover the ways in which the writer does constitute an aesthetic that can be called addiction. Description of the addicted routines, body transformations, and ghostly transformation of the addicts, allow generating forms that determine a lifestyle immersed in the world of drugs. Through authors like Katya Mandoki and André Leroi-Gourhan among others, it is possible to define lines that account for the aesthetic configuration and its relationship with drugs in the works of William Burroughs.
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