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Doctor Benway in "Naked Lunch": William S. Burroughs' Satan, Self, and Confidence-Man
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About Doctor Benway In "Naked Lunch": William
Doctor Benway, the mad medico of NAKED LUNCH, is William S. Burroughs' best-known and most popular character, immortalized by actor Roy Schieder in David Cronenberg’s 1991 film adaptation. This literary essay—the first character study ever published about this landmark American fictional figure—explores how Burroughs used the character of Doctor Benway to illustrate his radical distrust of authority figures, to create a perverse persona for himself, and to establish a compelling and frightening portrait of evil for our time. Is Doctor Benway running the world these days? Sometimes it seems so.
