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Naked Lunch

by William S. Burroughs

Avant-garde novel depicting the surreal, hallucinatory world of drug addiction and depravity

About the author

William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs was the most radical formal innovator of the Beat Generation, inventing the cut-up technique and writing hallucinatory visions of addiction and control in Naked Lunch. His work challenged every literary and moral taboo.

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