u/i_killed_Mcormick

I wanted to read that book as a sci-fi lover. It is important to say that English is not my first language, I speak it fluently though. And I bought the book in English. But, for instance, the chapters seem to not be in order ? Or the table of element is not ?

So, without spoilers (i have to finish the Castle by Kafka before reading it, give me maybe one more week) what can you tell me to help me navigate through the book. I may be wrong but it seems quite complicated to read.

I am a French student who studies English as a foreign language with a potential specialization in Anglophone literature (of the 19th and 20th centuries).

Next year I will have an article to write on literature (it could be literally anything as long as a teacher can approve of it) and decide to do something about fear as the structure of fiction and most precisely American Science fiction in the Cold War.

I will basically have 3 parts : 1; the fear of the atomic bombs 2; the fear of control 3; a more optimistic approach of new technologies.

I already have authors like Thomas Pynchon and Philip K.Dick (possibly Gravity’s rainbow and Time out of Joint as main books)for part one

For part two I thought of Ursula K le Guin and Ray Bradbury (Martian Chronicle and the hainish circle mainly)

And for the third part I only thought of Isaac Asimov.

My work is not supposed to be a full, done analysis yet, this will be done throughout next year, I just have to have ideas of what it will be about.

So now my question is, do you have any suggestions that could fit this theme in terms of novels/short stories ? I have three months before the start of the next year and will spend some times reading and knowing more about this period and this genre since it’s one I love reading and analyzing.

I plan to read The Naked Lunch by William S.Burroughs and wondered if it is a sci-fi novel. From what I’ve heard, it could be.

If this book is or not a sci-fi novel won’t change the fact that I will still read it. But I am thinking into adding it in my curriculum for my literature class (I am student but we have papers on chosen subjects ).