Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() The case was handled by the Massachusetts Supreme Court, but the hearing was delayed until after the decision of the U.S. The book was brought to trial on obscenity charges after a Boston bookseller was arrested for selling copies of it. edition of Naked Lunch was published by Grove Press in 1962. ![]() Customs seized several copies of the book that Girodias had tried to distribute in the United States, since the work was considered contraband material. In Paris, Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press brought out the first complete edition of the novel in July 1959. The first excerpts of the novel were issued in a student magazine at the University of Chicago in 1958. In the course of his journey, he explores his drug addiction, homosexuality, and various sexual deviances in lurid violent vignettes. In The Naked Lunch by William Seward Burroughs (1914-97), the narrator William Lee crosses the United States into Mexico, where he regularly meets his drug dealers, and then travels to Tangier. ![]()
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