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Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays
Oliver Harris
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Description for Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays
Paperback. "Naked Lunch" was banned, ridiculed, and castigated on publication in 1959. Tracing its origins from Texas to Tangier, from Mexico City to New York and Paris, crossing time zones and cultures, this book helps understands this most influential but elusive of texts. Editor(s): Harris, Oliver; MacFadyen, Ian. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 524.
Celebrating and analyzing a landmark novel that is aberrant, obscene, and blasphemous, ""Naked Lunch"" was banned, ridiculed, and castigated on publication in 1959, and yet fifty years down the line it has lost nothing of its power to astonish and inspire. A lacerating satire, an exorcism of demons, a grotesque cabinet of horrors, and a landmark experiment in linguistic derangement, it is a work of ecstatic, excoriating laughter and great, transcendent beauty. The first book ever to take on William Burroughs' masterpiece, this critical collection brings together an international array of writers, scholars, musicians, scientists, and artists who cast new ... Read more
Celebrating and analyzing a landmark novel that is aberrant, obscene, and blasphemous, ""Naked Lunch"" was banned, ridiculed, and castigated on publication in 1959, and yet fifty years down the line it has lost nothing of its power to astonish and inspire. A lacerating satire, an exorcism of demons, a grotesque cabinet of horrors, and a landmark experiment in linguistic derangement, it is a work of ecstatic, excoriating laughter and great, transcendent beauty. The first book ever to take on William Burroughs' masterpiece, this critical collection brings together an international array of writers, scholars, musicians, scientists, and artists who cast new ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809329168
SKU
V9780809329168
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99-44
About Oliver Harris
Oliver Harris, the author of William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, is a professor of American literature at Keele University. He is the editor of The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959, ""Everything Lost"": The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs, and Burroughs' novels Junky: The Definitive Text of ""Junk"" and The Yage Letters Redux. Harris is also ... Read more
Reviews for Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays
I can think of no other work of literary criticism that brings together such a multiplicity of artists, practitioners, and critics in such a dynamic assembly of writing forms. The resulting symbiosis strikes me as a whole new critical form, utterly pertinent to Burroughs' milieu. - Michael Hrebeniak, author of Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form