The result of Kerouac's attempt to find a voice in which he could Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks.(2) Yet what's so fascinatingĪbout their two most famous books is not just how different they are,īut how they stack up as precisely opposite to one another.Īccording to the mythology of the Beat generation, On the Road was In 1944 they collaborated on a spool contributingĪlternating chapters to a parody detective-thriller novel titled And the Opening page of Naked Lunch, Burroughs acknowledges Kerouac as the Burroughs met in New York in 1944 and continued to be importantįriends and influences for each other for more than two decades. With On the Road, supposedly an equally revolutionary novel by aĬolleague and cofounder of the Beat generation. To begin with, it would be most useful to compare it To situate Naked Lunch in a number of contexts, both literary-historicalĪnd contemporary. Unavailable (certainly a handful of critics and commentators, at least),īut as a precaution against being included in those statistics, we ought ![]() Than a thousand pages of material before selecting and settling on theĭata on the number of people driven mad by the novel are Working on it at least since 1953.(1) Eventually he would compile more The novel must have seemed endless to Ginsberg: Burroughs had been Which will drive everybody mad" (Howl, dedication). Naked Lunch was described by Allen Ginsberg as "an endless novel In 1956, before it was published, before it was even finished, APA style: 'Gentle Reader, I fain would spare you this, but my pen hath its will like the Ancient Mariner': Narrator(s) and Audience in William S. ![]() Burroughs's Naked Lunch." Retrieved from 'Gentle Reader, I fain would spare you this, but my pen hath its will like the Ancient Mariner': Narrator(s) and Audience in William S. 1998 University of Wisconsin Press 26 May. Burroughs's Naked Lunch." The Free Library. MLA style: "'Gentle Reader, I fain would spare you this, but my pen hath its will like the Ancient Mariner': Narrator(s) and Audience in William S.
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