{"product_id":"naked-lunch-william-burroughs","title":"Naked Lunch","description":"\"He was,\" as Salon's Gary Kamiya notes, \"20th-century drug  culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a  phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel  universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's.\"      Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic  ravings of a heroine addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in  a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst  onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the  pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the  landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.   Burroughs's literary experiment--the much-touted \"cut-up\" technique--mirrored the workings  of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory,  sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor.   What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the  decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most  easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it  and see for yourself.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e William Burroughs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e GROVE\/ATLANTIC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1994\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GROVE\/ATLANTIC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45681335107775,"sku":"9780802132956","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/1060\/1663\/files\/view_archive_08073ce5-8e4c-4cae-8e1e-3ac5f326ddf2.jpg?v=1780466784","url":"https:\/\/www.blendedbooknook.com\/products\/naked-lunch-william-burroughs","provider":"Blended Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}