William Seward Burroughs is an American novelist, short-story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. An essential figure of the Beat Generation and a significant postmodernist creator who wrote in the neurotic fiction sort, he is viewed as quite possibly the most politically abrasive, socially persuasive, and imaginative craftsmen of the twentieth century. His impact is considered to have influenced a scope of mainstream society just as writing. His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. The present study looks into the apocalyptic path of Burroughs - the man, the age he belongs to and his prominent works. In his works, Burroughs creates an individual style hich showcases his own characteristic aesthetic demands like imagery and structure. . It is a record of the Beat age, and Burroughs' inclusion in it. It additionally follows the pertinence of the post-war time frame and its effect upon the contemporary essayists of the time and the scholarly structure picked, the novel specifically.