Working my way through Gravity’s Rainbow (it’s really hard and I’m suffering, help), taking a break here and there with Middlemarch (hums like a Cadillac), Naked Lunch came up as a borrow waiting to be claimed on Libby.
There is really nothing else like this novel in my experience. I don’t know of any other work that is at once so breezy, exquisitely written, and totally grotesque. Beyond that, he has a vision as legitimate as and that if any other author. It is the world of drugs, body horror, the bohemian and the marginalized as we would put it today. It is witty and scary and disgusting and honestly, it is ingenious.
by SealedRoute
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Oh lord look out it’s Jack Kerouac
I could be wrong but I think Hubert Selby Jr said he wrote Requiem for a Dream after having read a lot of Burroughs and yep, it checks!