crazy summer

The oldest and longest-living writer of the "Beat Generation" is William Burrows. ...In 1953, William Burrows wrote the "Beat" style novel "Junkie" based on his drug addiction experience, which began to attract the attention of American literature. After that, he first lived in seclusion in a male prostitute in Tangier, Morocco, and soon went to several countries in South America to search for drugs. In 1955, he returned to Tangier, rented a private house, did not bathe or change his clothes for a year, and dived into writing novels. He throws as he writes, and writes as he throws. Four years later, he handed over a mess of manuscripts to the Olympia Press in Paris for publication. The original title of the work is "Naked Lust" (Naked Lust). When Ginsburg read the manuscript, it was so scribbled that it misread it as "Naked Lunch." They both thought the topic was "more comfortable" and settled on it. This novel mainly tells the author's experience of wandering, drug use, sex, homosexuality, etc. It is full of descriptions of physical abuse, obscene details, and vulgar language. Some critics dismissed it as "a pile of unintelligible garbage" and "a piece of psychopathic raving." Boston and other cities once banned the publication and sale of the book in the name of "obscenity". Others, however, believe that the book "has a humorous attack on the hypocrisy of society and explores the absurd side of people's minds", "rich with profound moral connotations" and "a work of eccentric genius". In this way, after arguing for nearly two years, the novel was published in the United States in 1962, and was subsequently translated into 16 languages ​​for publication.
----Excerpt from "Beat Generation."
There is no doubt that the nude lunch is Burrows's pinnacle of work, according to his words, you can turn to any page and start reading.
A film adapted from a semi-autorotation novel, depicting how a writer who is addicted to drugs can no longer distinguish between the real world and the psychedelic world in the hallucinatory experience of writing and drug use. A movie that deeply depicts the state of fantasy. The film integrates psychedelic experiences such as literary creation, drug use and sex, presenting a blurred world that can no longer be clearly divided. The prototype of Interzone in the film is Tangiers, the city where Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch. The fact that Hank and Martin sponsored Bill's writing and publishing in the movie is very close to the action of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac helping Burroughs in real life.
The following film review is not bad:
(United States) Many views on life, body, creation, etc. of the middle-class society with rationality as the main body are questioned in the film-the reality and illusion of life experience, the opposition between body and spirit, mechanical Differences from living things, etc. For example, the incarnated typewriter in the film subverts Freud's notion that literary creation is only a writer's daydream. The literary world is not an illusion separated from reality, and creation is not just a function of the spirit, but an activity and experience that is related to the individual body and the people, things, and things in the (technological) society. In the existing society controlled by rationalism, it seems that only drugs can give people a glimpse of the truth of the world.
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