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Naked Lunch. Naked Lunch (sometimes The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 novel by American writer William S. Burroughs. The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes, intended by Burroughs to be read in any order. The novel follows the junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases, from the U.S. to Mexico, eventually to Tangier and ...
Naked Lunch: Directed by David Cronenberg. With Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands. After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
Naked Lunch is a 1991 surrealist science fiction drama film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider. It is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs 's 1959 novel of the same name , and an international co-production of Canada , Britain , and Japan .
The character is an unsuccessful writer who has turned to pornography to support himself, and of course Burroughs did much of his now-acclaimed work in that genre, including “Naked Lunch.” His days, when they are not spent in desultory work or experiments with bug powder and other substances, are devoted to aimless sessions of cynical talk ...
Finding success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953), Burroughs is perhaps best known for his third novel Naked Lunch (1959), a controversy-fraught work that underwent a court case under the U.S. sodomy laws. With Brion Gysin, he also popularized the literary cut-up technique in works such as The Nova Trilogy (1961–64).
Watch Naked Lunch with a subscription on Max. Strange, maddening, and at times incomprehensible, Naked Lunch is nonetheless an engrossing experience. Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee (Peter Weller ...
Naked LunchBy William S. BurroughsHardcover, 320 pagesGrove PressList price: $24. Read An Excerpt. First published 50 years ago, William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch is a dark, wild ride ...
