by William S. Burroughs · GALLIMARD · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070702084
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«Le festin nu» is the novel by William S. Burroughs, published by Gallimard in paperback (266 pages, in French).
An experimental, fragmentary novel that follows William Lee, a man who flees to an imaginary territory called Interzone after accidentally killing his wife. Convinced he is a secret agent, Lee writes reports for a mysterious corporation in a grotesque and bleak narrative about addiction and power.
Part of Gallimard's L'Imaginaire collection, number 138. French translation by Éric Kahane of the original «The Naked Lunch» (1959).
For readers of beat and experimental literature who want to discover a cult work of the counterculture.
William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced both underground and popular culture and literature. Much of Burroughs's work is highly experimental and features unreliable narrators. Also noted as semi-autobiographical, his work often drew from his experiences with drug addiction, and featured his various places of residence as settings in much of his work. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique. His writing also engaged frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, constant preoccupations in both his fiction and real life.
