Naked lunch / William S. Burroughs.

First Evergreen black cat edition.

New York : Grove Press, 1966.

©1959

xlvii, 255 pages ; 18 cm

BEIN 2018 5938: Title page verso: Twelfth printing, 1977. Imperfect: inside front and back covers browned; pages browned. Paperbound. Accompanied by: 1 newspaper article titled 'Splicing frames from the life of William S. Burroughs' by Vito Russo (4 pages ; 32 x 27 cm folded to 16 x 14 cm). All accompanying materials are housed separately. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.

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 For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume--that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions to the book, and his essay on psychoactive drugs--is a valuable and fresh experience of a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.

English

June 01, 2002

Fiction.