Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
"Cities of the Red Night: A Novel" is a surreal, hallucinatory narrative that intertwines three storylines: an 18th-century pirate crew seeking utopia, a detective investigating a series of grotesque murders, and a pandemic causing spontaneous orgasms. The novel explores themes of homosexuality, anarchism, and the occult, using its disjointed narrative structure to challenge traditional understandings of time, space, and reality.
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- Published
- 1981
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 332
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
- None
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