San Francisco Public Library

Uncle Bill, Bernardo Fernández, Bef

spa

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

fiction

Uncle Bill

bibliographycomics graphic novels

917209214

Bernardo Fernández, Bef

1949. William Burroughs llega a la Ciudad de México acompañado de Joan, su esposa, la hijastra Julie y Billy, su pequeño hijo. Destinado a convertirse en el más importante escritor experimental contemporáneo de los Estados Unidos, el aún joven Bill apenas coquetea con la idea de escribir una novela. Ignora que dos años después habrá de matar accidentalmente a Joan de un tiro en la cabeza, durante un estúpido juego de Guillermo Tell. 1990. Un muy joven Bef descubre por accidente la obra de Burroughs, escritor contracultural y patriarca de la generación beatnik. Saber que vivió en su ciudad y caminó por las mismas calles habrá de obsesionarlo durante los siguientes años. Uncle Bill narra la historia del desencuentro cultural de Burroughs con México, sus tropiezos previos antes de llegar huyendo al aún provinciano Distrito Federal y el fatal accidente, así como su fugaz paso por la cárcel de Lecumberri y la relación de amor--odio que un lector puede establecer con la obra de un autor del que lo separan tiempo y espacio, así como el extraño vínculo que parece unirlos. Uncle Bill es la más ambiciosa novela gráfica de uno de los más importantes narradores e historietistas mexicanosWilliam Burroughs arrives in 1949 to the city of Mexico accompanied by Joan, his wife, his step-daughter Julie and Billy, their infant son. Destined to become the most important contemporary experimental writer of the United States, the still young Bill just flirts with the idea of writing a novel. It ignores that two years later he would accidentally kill Joan of a shot in the head, during a stupid game of William Tell. In 1990 a very young Bef discovers by accident the work of Burroughs, countercultural writer and patriarch of the beatnik generation. Knowing that Burroughs lived in his town and walked the same streets will have to obsess over the following years. "Uncle Bill" tells the story of the cultural clash of Burroughs with Mexico, his previous setbacks before fleeing to the still provincial Federal District and the fatal accident, as well as his fleeting passage through Lecumberri prison and the relationship of love - hate that a reader can be set with the work of an author of that separate time and space, as well as the strange bond that seems to unite them. "Uncle Bill" is the most ambitious graphic novel from one of the most important writers and cartoonists in Mexico. "Bef entered one of the most dramatic episodes of the literature-the turbulent life of William S. Burroughs in Mexico to achieve a literary masterpiece. Research and murder mysteries of creativity, this graphic novel is the autobiography of Bef, the hallucinating artist who plasma in black and white all the colors of the mind."