👉 Nilghaus is a 1934 novel by American author William S. Burroughs, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. In this novel, the protagonist, Nilghaus, is a man who becomes obsessed with the concept of "the great self," and his obsession leads him to commit suicide. He is described as a person whose life is an endless cycle of death and rebirth, where he constantly seeks to become more and more himself. Nilghaus's obsession
