The Tangier International Zone was a 382 km2 international zone centered on the city of Tangier, Morocco, which existed from 1925 until its reintegration into independent Morocco in 1956, with interru
Borj en-Nâam barracks in the Kasbah of Tangier, former seat of the Spanish Tabor (city police) between 1906 and 1925
Former British legation in the Medina of Tangier
Former French legation until the mid-19th century, later Dar Niaba
Former Spanish legation, erected in 1786; later Spanish post office
Naked Lunch is a 1959 antinovel by American author William S. Burroughs. The novel does not follow a clear linear plot, but is instead structured as a series of non-chronological "routines". Many of t
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…Perdicaris affair Naked Lunch Beevor, Antony (2006). The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-29784832-1…
1959 Olympia Press edition, with original title
Hell as depicted by Hieronymous Bosch in The Garden of Earthly Delights. During the Boston trial, authors and professors compared Naked Lunch to the religious works of Bosch, Dante Alighieri, and Augustine of Hippo.
Allen Ginsberg (pictured in 1979) inadvertently coined the novel's title. Ginsberg later incorporated the title into a poem, which he read in court during one of the book's obscenity trials.
Critics have compared Naked Lunch to the works of Jonathan Swift, who wrote political satires such as Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal.