A Comparison Of On The Road And Naked Lunch

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This article is based on my MA thesis which is entitled ‘’Comparison of TwoNovel Adaptations of Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ and William Burroughs ‘Naked Lunch”. The main issues in this paper are: a) Beat Generation and Beat Novel b) Analysis of On the Road’s Film Adaptation c) Analysis of Naked Lunch’s Film Adaptation. Also, final section of this study intended to determine whether adapters of On the Road and Naked Lunch succeeded to create a new and original work of art or not. On the basis of the results of this article, it was concluded that “a restoration of the essence of the letter and the spirit’’ was the most efficient elements in adaptation of Beat Novels.The obvious finding to emerge from this study was that director Walter Salles’ On the Road was defined as less …show more content…

All of a sudden, Dean appears and desires to drive and take him to Mexico City. They take a very long journey and stop in a town where they go a brothel. Finally, they arrive in Mexico but Sal becomes too sick to enjoy the city. Sadly, Dean leaves Sal alone in his sickbed and goes away. After Sal heals and goes to New York, he goes out for a concert with his friend Remi. That night is the last time Sal faces with Dean. Dean unexpectedly appears and Sal says good bye to him. They never see each other again. Turning now our second Beat Novel Naked Lunch, it is based on autobiographical elements which are one of the main characteristics of Beat Generation works as well. To understand better how Naked Lunch is written, we should look at the ten years of Burroughs’ life before the book exists. Readers of Naked Lunch can detect traces of his background in the South, his sexual orientation, his drug addiction –using and selling drugs in New York-, escaping from cops, killing his “de facto” wife Joan by accident, his journey from Mexico to Panama and his visit to South America and living in Tangier at

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