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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs Jr

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A restored text with archival context

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A restored text with archival context

This edition pairs the novel with materials that illuminate its publication and revision history: final-draft typescripts, contemporaneous writings, Burroughs’s later introductions, and an essay on psychoactive drugs. That combination makes the book’s relationship to art and obscenity part of the reading context, alongside the novel itself. The supplementary pieces give the volume a documentary dimension, bringing together the work and writings connected to it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in modern American fiction and its cultural history.
  • Burroughs readers who want drafts and related writings alongside the novel.
  • Readers interested in debates about art, obscenity, and psychoactive drugs.

Themes

Art and obscenityLiterary and cultural historyPsychoactive drugsDrafts and textual history

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Book overview

Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.

Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume--that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions to the book, and his essay on psychoactive drugs--is a valuable and fresh experience of a novel that has lost none of its relevance or satirical bite.

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