The definite article "the" in the title was never intended by the author, but added by the editors of the Olympia Press 1959 edition. It was titled Naked Lunch and was substantially different from the Olympia Press edition because it was based on an earlier 1958 manuscript in Allen Ginsberg's possession. Because of US obscenity laws, a complete American edition (by Grove Press) did not follow until 1962. The book was originally published with the title The Naked Lunch in Paris in July 1959 by Olympia Press. In 1991, David Cronenberg wrote and directed a film of the same name based on the novel and other Burroughs writings. The novel was included in Time 's "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". The vignettes (which Burroughs called "routines") are drawn from Burroughs' own experiences in these places and his addiction to drugs: heroin, morphine and, while in Tangier, majoun (a strong hashish confection), as well as a German opioid with the brand name Eukodol (oxycodone), of which he wrote frequently. to Mexico, eventually to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone. The reader follows the narration of junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases, from the U.S.
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes, intended by Burroughs to be read in any order. Naked Lunch (sometimes The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 novel by American writer William S.
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