Naked Lunch was a controversial novel when it came out. The subjects of language to drug usage to homosexuality was obscene and shocking to his readers in the 1950’s. When Naked Lunch was banned in Boston due to obscenity the Supreme Court ruled the novel as a significance importance to literature. This was important to the Beat Movement because Burroughs challenged the ways of writing that were establishing during that era which helped establish Beat literature. Naked Lunch is a crucial literary work that helped the Beat movement because Naked Lunch challenged censorship and won paving the way for Beat Literature to be
Naked Lunch was a controversial novel when it came out. The subjects of language to drug usage to homosexuality was obscene and shocking to his readers in the 1950’s. When Naked Lunch was banned in Boston due to obscenity the Supreme Court ruled the novel as a significance importance to literature. This was important to the Beat Movement because Burroughs challenged the ways of writing that were establishing during that era which helped establish Beat literature. Naked Lunch is a crucial literary work that helped the Beat movement because Naked Lunch challenged censorship and won paving the way for Beat Literature to be