"We are the language" in the title of one of the most important chapters of Cities of the Red Night , a novel that William Burroughs has not received many plaudits of Naked Lunch , but remained over time, perhaps even more significant. Contradictory, visionary as always, but more determined Cities of the Red Night tells the story of Captain Mission, a libertarian and utopian pirate that "nothing is true. Everything is permitted. " Skilful William Burroughs's metaphor to describe the wide world of the last century and glimpses of the future, with an obsession, an obsession that is also the subtle linking all his life. "What I'm trying to say is very simple. The entire human position no longer tenable, "he writes in a passage de Cities of the Red Night , Captain Mission by voting to victims of this insight, that virus called man. While maintaining all the benefits of the revolutionary Naked Lunch , Cities of the Red Night , architect with more experience, on several levels, showing a William Burroughs increasingly unsettling. Remains extremely relevant, because although projected in the darkest depths of human history and crazy and convulsions language Cities of the Red Night incontrovertible expresses the thought of Burroughs that he translates as: " What I'm trying to say is very simple. The entire human position no longer tenable. And a final comment ... As you know, a large crater in what is now Siberia is considered the result of a meteorite. He also theorizes that this meteorite has brought the radiation in question. Others have speculated that it might be not a meteorite but a black hole, a hole in the structure of reality, through which the inhabitants of these ancient cities traveled in time to end an impasse. " William Burroughs shows off the abilities of his magic tricks ("The essence of magic tricks is the distraction and inconvenience. If you can convince someone to have, by their perspicacity, guess your hidden agenda, will not seek more than" ), masking the reality from time to time and disrupting patterns literary, as if the true independence of Captain Mission depended language. Hypothesis by no means unrealistic, given that the populations of Cities of the Red Night are among the most extravagant and elaborate ever created, as always punctual Fernanda Pivano noted in the preface: "How John Cage created compositions that somehow dissonant sounds usual force in a musical structure, Burroughs crowd the pages of creatures from the human world continually transmigrate in the sci-fi or in that of the absurd. " And this sudden metamorphosis are necessary to explain that the Burroughs human virus "after thousands of years of coexistence of more or less benign, is now back on the verge of a malignant mutation. Essential, now more than ever.
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