William Burroughs - what he was like and how he saw himself. The king and classic of English-language alternative prose - about himself, his work and his life. What inspired him? Sex, politics, the eternal “shadow of death” hanging over each of us? Or something else? Which “myths about Burroughs” are true, which are made up by journalists, and which ones did the creator of surrealist mythology of the 20th century create about himself? And for what? Before you is a book in which William Burroughs himself answers these and many other questions - a man who was able to tell a lot more about himself than anyone dared to ask him.