Death, immortality and cosmos: William S. Burroughs about the fears of today

The article deals with the specificities of interpreting the topics of death, immortality, virus, and language in the works of William S. Burroughs (1914– 1997), an American writer and philosopher. Many of his thoughts have anticipated the fears of our days. At the same time, both originality and topicality of the issues posed by the writer in his novels and essays allow to consider him an original thinker.