Naked Lunch
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Naked Lunch is a novel by William S. Burroughs. It was the third novel he wrote, but was the second of his novels to see publication.
Publishing history
The book was first published as The Naked Lunch in France in 1959 by Olympia Press; an American edition by Grove Press followed soon after in 1962. The American edition was titled Naked Lunch and was substantially different from the Olympia Press edition. The American edition was in fact based on an earlier 1958 revision of the text that Allen Ginsberg had in his possession. The article the in the title most likely was never intended by the author, but added by the editors of the Olympia Press 1959 edition. Nonetheless the The Naked Lunch title version was also used for the 1969 Corgi Books edition.
David Cronenberg released a film of the same title based upon the novel and other Burroughs writings in 1991.
