Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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Peter Weller is suitably deadpan, allowing only a sparkle of the playful poet to shine through from time to time (the story about the Duke du Vantra's Espano-Suiza made me howl); he must have spent a few =fun= hours with Burroughs himself to get the role down. Burroughs’s killing of Vollmer would be a turning point in his life, one that saw him begin writing in earnest:

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' 1959 novel of the same name, and an international co-production of Canada, Britain, and Japan. Fox, David J. (6 January 1992). " 'Sweet' Takes Honors From Film Critics". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 9 April 2017. Burroughs' writing aims to provoke disgust. [25] The novel contains many explicit sexual scenes, emphasizing "sterile, inhuman, malevolent" acts of castration, sodomy, pederasty, and sadomasochism (especially via hanging). [26] [27] Many "routines" involve body horror, especially grotesque transformations of humans into insects or amorphous blobs. [26] Lydenberg, Robin (1987). Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01413-8. The film has been selected for a Criterion Collection release, an organization that releases high quality Blu-rays and DVDs for important classic and contemporary films. [ citation needed] Accolades [ edit ]

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Severo, Richard (August 3, 1997). "William S. Burroughs Dies at 83; Member of the Beat Generation Wrote 'Naked Lunch' ". The New York Times . Retrieved August 28, 2021. Calling partisans of all nations—Cut word lines—Shift linguals—Vibrate tourists—Free doorways—Word falling—Photo falling—Break through in Grey Room.

Naked Lunchis a postmodern narrative and Burroughs' first attempt at using a nonlinear plot. Heavily inspired by Brion Gynsin's "cut-up technique," in which text is cut up and rearranged to create new sentences, Burroughs claimed that Naked Lunch could be "cut into at any point." The end result is an obscure, long-winded, and downright confusing masterwork which has been hailed as "one of the most important books of the twentieth century." Following is an attempt to summarize some of the book's most important and pertinent events. WB: Always was. I always was involved in that area from my early childhood. I was always interested in the occult and the mysterious ... just a life-long preoccupation." — William S. Burroughs, interviewed by Tom Vitale, November 26, 1986 [12] Burroughs, William S. (2001). Grauerholtz, James; Miles, Barry (eds.). Naked Lunch (the restored texted.). Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-4018-1. Burroughs also produced numerous essays and a large body of autobiographical material, including a book with a detailed account of his own dreams ( My Education: A Book of Dreams). A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century".

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After the description of the four parties of Interzone, we are told more stories about AJ. After briefly describing Interzone, the novel breaks into sub-stories and heavily cut-up influenced passages. WB: It's supposed to be, yes. It's supposed to have an element of magical invocation." — William S. Burroughs [90] a b 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estim

In a sudden return to what appears to be Lee's modern narrative, Officers Hauser and O'Brien are both killed by him. Lee then goes to a phone booth and calls the Narcotics Agency, demanding to speak to O'Brien. The responding officer informs Lee that there's no "O'Brien" in their records. Lee's request to speak to Hauser results in an identical reply. Frustrated, high, and confused, Lee hangs up the phone and continues fleeing. The narrative grows increasingly nonsensical before abruptly ending altogether. It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin – music sculpture writing painting – and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results ..." — William S. Burroughs [87] Regina Weinreich, who teaches Beat Generation literature at New York's School of Visual Arts, believes the novel represents an alternative way of life, one that focuses on the individual as opposed to the masses. William Seward Burroughs II, (also known by his pen name William Lee) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. Burroughs killed his second wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951 in Mexico City. Burroughs initially claimed that he shot Vollmer while drunkenly attempting a "William Tell" stunt. [6] He later told investigators that he had been showing his pistol to friends when it fell and hit the table, firing the bullet that killed Vollmer. [7] After Burroughs returned to the United States, he was convicted of manslaughter in absentia and received a two-year suspended sentence.The novel was included in Time's "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". [3] Title origin [ edit ] Ayscough, Suzan (14 October 1992). " 'Lunch,' 'Leolo' to battle for top '92 Genie honors". Variety . Retrieved 25 August 2016. The cut-up techniques made very explicit a preoccupation with exorcism – William's texts became spells, for instance." — Terry Wilson [32] Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian. "Bart on the Road". BBC. Archived from the original on 11 April 2004 . Retrieved 6 March 2008.

Gibson, William (1 January 2021). "William Gibson: 'I read Naked Lunch when it was still quasi-illicit' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 July 2023. The only other censorship action against the book outside the State of Massachusetts occurred in Los Angeles, where the novel was cleared of obscenity charges at a trial in 1965."

During the obscenity trial, the book was defended by writers Norman Mailer, Ginsberg and John Ciardi. Finally, in 1966, a high court ruled that the book had redeeming social value and was therefore not obscene.