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This 7 page paper discusses, compares, contrasts Burroughs with Kerouac's style and philosophy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of convention. In Burroughs Naked Lunch, themes of the modern era are explored with frankness while in Kerouac delves into the American Experience in recent times. Both share many of
the same goals and characteristics, but at the same time retain that which makes each authors writing compelling and uniquely fresh. The Naked Lunch illustrated
decay from within in its unusual treatment of a technologically advanced world that was bent on self-destruction. Because it was so frank in its suggestions and implications, many in the
literary circles dismissed it as gibberish. The establishment also was quite dismissive of the work because Burroughs discarded narrative prose as many had been using up until this time. Burroughs
stream of consciousness style was disorienting and jarring to the staid literary circles. And, if they didnt care for that, they certainly didnt care for the fact that his chapters
were not in chronological order, there were abrupt transitions and generally threw out all rules of writing. And, yet, he tells a haunting tale with a no-holds barred clarity which
had the book banned in many places. What most disagreed with was his honest look and examination of drug addition, sexual orientation (especially homosexuality) and death in a technological
world which has lost its humanity. The insane way in which the book is put together only reinforces the theme of madness. I Dont Want To Hear Any More Tired
Old Junk Talk and Junk Con. . . . The same things said a million times and more and there is no point in saying anything because NOTHING
Ever Happens in the junk world(Burroughs 13). Lee realizes that all of the drugs available to him have been tried and none of
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