Naked Lunch
E62682
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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Naked Lunch canonical | 19 |
| Naked Lunch (1991 film) | 1 |
| The Naked Lunch | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental fiction work
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| author | William S. Burroughs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception |
considered a landmark of 20th-century American literature
ⓘ
regarded as a key Beat Generation text ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | David Cronenberg ⓘ |
| firstPublicationPlace | Paris ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Olympia Press ⓘ |
| genre |
Beat literature
ⓘ
experimental fiction ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ satire ⓘ science fiction elements ⓘ transgressive fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Naked Lunch
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Naked Lunch (1991 film)
|
| hasCharacter | William Lee ⓘ |
| influenced |
countercultural writers of the 1960s
ⓘ
cyberpunk authors ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Beat Generation writing practices
ⓘ
Burroughs’s experiences with heroin addiction ⓘ Burroughs’s travels in Tangier ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatusHistory |
banned in some U.S. jurisdictions
ⓘ
central work in U.S. obscenity law debates ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Beat Generation ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial obscenity trials
ⓘ
cut-up style passages ⓘ depiction of drug addiction ⓘ hallucinatory imagery ⓘ nonlinear narrative structure ⓘ |
| pageCountApprox | ~255 pages (Grove Press edition) ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| publisher | Grove Press ⓘ |
| setting | Interzone ⓘ |
| structure |
fragmented vignettes
ⓘ
nonlinear episodes ⓘ |
| style |
black humor
ⓘ
collage-like composition ⓘ surreal imagery ⓘ |
| subjectOf | obscenity trial in the United States ⓘ |
| theme |
bureaucracy and systems of control
ⓘ
control and power ⓘ drug addiction ⓘ paranoia ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Naked Lunch (1991 film)
this entity surface form:
The Naked Lunch