The graphic sexual depictions of Last Tango in Paris (1972) caused a lot of controversy, while his lesser-known La Luna (1979) depicted a highly sexualised mother-son relationship that made many uncomfortable. And more than 40 years after it was published, it was adapted for the screen by Academy Award-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci.īertolucci’s a director who’s always enjoyed shocking his audience. Burroughs ( Naked Lunch) and Michelangelo Antonioni ( L’Avventura). Considered by many as one of the greatest pieces of 20th-century literature, it gained attention from directors such as William S. His style has an undertow of hallucinogenic existentialism that evokes similarities to the early works of the Beats. However, his 1949 novel The Sheltering Sky reads like a darker and mysterious version of Hemingway. Living in self-imposed exile in Tangier, expatriate author Paul Bowles remained aloof from the hipsters and beatniks of the US.
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