Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by Burroughs Jr, William S.
ISBN: 9780802122070
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Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volumethat contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions to the book, and his essay on psychoactive drugsis a valuable and fresh experience of a novel that has lost none of its relevance or satirical bite."
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Burroughs Jr, William S.
  • ISBN: 9780802122070
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 0.90
  • Number Of Pages: 304
  • Publication Year: 2013

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  • Mugwumps, Metaphysical Terror and Laughs

    Logan S. - 7 years 1 month ago

    William S. Burroughs classic Naked Lunch is the one of the most controversial books published. The book was banned numerous times and was the subject of an obscenity trial. Burroughs takes the traditional form of the novel and throws it out the window. As stated in one of the books introductions, the novel can be read in any order. The sections of the book do not follow a traditional linear path but bend and twist with the narrator's journey through the interzone (a sort of drug nightmare town populated with grotesque book people). The novel features many gross and horrific scenes and provided the band Steely Dan with their not safe for work name. If you want to read the weirdest of the weird, this is the book.

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