Tuesday, 14 February 2023

The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs


Publisher: Corgi Books
Number: 552 07938 3
Publishing Year: 1968
Printing: First
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THE NAKED LUNCH

"EXTRAORDINARY AND DEVASTATING,
FUNNY AND TERRIBLE,
HORRIBLE AND HAUNTING.

Like Genet turned into a Marx Brothers script, this is the real journey to the end of the night, a Big Dipper ride through the black underworld of the human soul.
To read it, it's like Ulysses put through a speeded-up projector onto a distorted cinema screen. It is a gruesome, tormented and a chillingly pessimistic view of the universe. But that is where Burroughs dwelt during the time of his addiction."
Kenneth Allsop - Daily Mail

"Mr. Burroughs joins a small body of writers who are willing to look at hell and report what they see.
I can think of only one other writer with whom he can be compared: Jonathan Swift. It demands to be read."
Anthony Burgess - The Guardian

"A furious apocalypse, splendid and exasperating."
The Sunday Times

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