William Seward Burroughs is one of the most influential American prose writers of the 20th century. Without his books, it is difficult to imagine the films of David Cronenberg, the philosophical works of Gilles Deleuze, and the songs of David Bowie. He was a beat ally and a punk patron, a queer pioneer and a rock 'n' roll icon, a gun lover and a desperate drug addict, a freedom preacher and a killer on the run. It is difficult to find corners of modern culture in which the isotopes of his influence do not shine: postmodernism, cyberpunk, transhumanism, psychedelic rock, industrial - the list goes on and on. Burroughs Who Exploded is the first Russian-language biography of the counterculture instigator, written by Dmitry Khaustov, author of books on Charles Bukowski, George Orwell and the Beat Generation.