Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch is a novel by William S. Burroughs. A film based on it was directed by David Cronenberg; see Naked Lunch (movie). The book is the most famous that Burroughs wrote. It is a novel consisting of several short novels all written in a style called cut-up technique, which allows the reader to 'cut into' the text at any point and also gives the psychedelic and hallucinatory sense to the story that Burroughs intended. The stories are about his fantasy during his time in Tangier, filled with drugs (mostly heroin), homosexuality and taboo fantasies about peculiar creatures, personalities and Burroughsian mechanisms. It is a perspective so closely observing our own environment that it seems like mere fantasy, when in fact it has much more resemblance with ordinary life than a glance lets the reader understand. The book was forbidden from being published for approximately ten years, presumably due to the intensity of some of the material. Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in room #9 of the Hotel el Muniria in Tangier. Photos of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other beat generation poets hang on the walls of the ajoining bar, the Tangerinn. Category:1959 books