Naked Lunch
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Naked Lunch is a groundbreaking and controversial novel by William S. Burroughs, known for its nonlinear, hallucinatory depiction of addiction and its central place in Beat Generation literature.
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| instanceOf |
experimental fiction work
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novel → |
| author |
William S. Burroughs
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| criticalReception |
considered a landmark of 20th-century American literature
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regarded as a key Beat Generation text → |
| filmAdaptationDirector |
David Cronenberg
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| firstPublicationPlace |
Paris
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| firstPublisher |
Olympia Press
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| genre |
Beat literature
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experimental fiction → postmodern literature → satire → science fiction elements → transgressive fiction → |
| hasAdaptation |
Naked Lunch (1991 film)
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| hasCharacter |
William Lee
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| influenced |
countercultural writers of the 1960s
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cyberpunk authors → postmodern literature → |
| influencedBy |
Beat Generation writing practices
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Burroughs’s experiences with heroin addiction → Burroughs’s travels in Tangier → |
| language |
English
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| legalStatusHistory |
banned in some U.S. jurisdictions
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central work in U.S. obscenity law debates → |
| literaryMovement |
Beat Generation
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| narrativeVoice |
first-person narrator
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| notableFor |
controversial obscenity trials
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cut-up style passages → depiction of drug addiction → hallucinatory imagery → nonlinear narrative structure → |
| pageCountApprox |
~255 pages (Grove Press edition)
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| publicationYear |
1959
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| publisher |
Grove Press
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| setting |
Interzone
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| structure |
fragmented vignettes
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nonlinear episodes → |
| style |
black humor
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collage-like composition → surreal imagery → |
| subjectOf |
obscenity trial in the United States
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| theme |
bureaucracy and systems of control
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control and power → drug addiction → paranoia → sexuality → |
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Naked Lunch
("Naked Lunch (1991 film)")
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Beat Generation
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William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
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