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He had originally thought of Naked Lunch as a novel of the Inter-zone, which he based on Tangier, a place in the 1950s where drug use, casual sex, free-wheeling bohemianism, superstition, and ...
Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most shocking novels ever written, Naked Lunch is a ...
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Dec 15, 2003 · His seminal work, Naked Lunch (which played a pivotal role in a famous censorship trial back in 1965), was a title suggested by Jack Kerouac who, as the main actor Peter Weller observes in the commentary track, "is the title given by Kerouac to that frozen moment in time when each of us gets to see exactly what's on the end of our forks - because we don't look at what we eat, we just eat.
Apr 9, 2013 · Naked Lunch opened a path into the world of the addict, the homosexual, the social outlaw. From this despised and largely unmentionable territory, Burroughs extracted a presiding metaphor of control. Naked Lunch deals with the control of consciousness and behavior through addiction—to sex, power, money, drugs, even to control itself.
Naked Lunch. William S. Burroughs. Grove Weidenfeld, 1990 - Alienation (Social psychology) - 232 pages. "Naked Lunch" is the unnerving tale of a monumental descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict as he travels from New York to Tangiers, then into Interzone, a nightmarish modern urban wasteland in which the forces of good and evil ...
