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==Works and Critical Reputation==

==Works and Critical Reputation==

Burroughs achieved fame more for obscenity than for literary merit. His novels are pornographic and incoherent, full of scatological obsession, crude pederastic fantasy and disgusting violence. An leftwing critic writes of him “For B, homosexuality is only revolutionary when it escapes the model of normative heterosexual love, which constructs the self as a subject by reducing the loved Other to an object”. <ref>Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs, Timothy S. Murphy University of California Press, 6 Dec 1997,159.</ref> The truth is just the opposite. Lust of the degraded type Burroughs describes is what reduces the other person to an object, and in fact, everything in his writing degrades everybody below the level of human. If a disturbed sociopath is revolutionary, then he is certainly "revolutionary".

Burroughs achieved fame more for obscenity than for literary merit. He wrote ''Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict'' (1953) and ''The Naked Lunch'' (1959). His novels are pornographic and incoherent, full of scatological obsession, crude pederastic fantasy and disgusting violence. An leftwing critic writes of him “For B, homosexuality is only revolutionary when it escapes the model of normative heterosexual love, which constructs the self as a subject by reducing the loved Other to an object”. <ref>Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs, Timothy S. Murphy University of California Press, 6 Dec 1997,159.</ref> The truth is just the opposite. Lust of the degraded type Burroughs describes is what reduces the other person to an object, and in fact, everything in his writing degrades everybody below the level of human. If a disturbed sociopath is revolutionary, then he is certainly "revolutionary".

Other critics criticize Burroughs for his “neo-imperialist” attitudes. Brendan Nicholls comments that Burroughs mirrored his own experiences when describing how an American in Morocco buys boys as sex-slaves. The vendor describes the boys as if they are objects, used cars, even using the pronoun “it”. “One owner and he was a doctor, a once-over-lightly, twice a week type citizen. It’s young and it’s tender.” The critic admits that the boy is “monstrously commodified”. <ref> War-torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II, edited by Danielle E. Hipkins, Gill Plain p.232</ref>

Other critics criticize Burroughs for his “neo-imperialist” attitudes. Brendan Nicholls comments that Burroughs mirrored his own experiences when describing how an American in Morocco buys boys as sex-slaves. The vendor describes the boys as if they are objects, used cars, even using the pronoun “it”. “One owner and he was a doctor, a once-over-lightly, twice a week type citizen. It’s young and it’s tender.” The critic admits that the boy is “monstrously commodified”. <ref> War-torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II, edited by Danielle E. Hipkins, Gill Plain p.232</ref>