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modernity and ignorance

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Queer Geoff Dyer Greece in the age ofOriginally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma both an unflinching autobiographical self portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, "Naked Lunch". Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, "Queer" follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As