Anthony Burgess Revisited
Author : John J. Stinson
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
The Ink Trade
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1784103934
Book Description
'The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manqué: I make no other pretensions ...' Anthony Burgess Despite his modest claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously prolific journalist. During his life he published two substantial collections of journalism, Urgent Copy (1968) and Homage to Qwert Yuiop (1986); a posthumous collection of occasional essays, One Man's Chorus, was published in 1998. These collections are now out of print, and Burgess's journalism, a key part of his prodigious output, has fallen into neglect. The Ink Trade is a brilliant new selection of his reviews and articles, some savage, some crucial in establishing new writers, new tastes and trends. Between 1959 and his death in 1993 Burgess contributed to newspapers and periodicals around the world: he was provocative, informative, entertaining, extravagant, and always readable. Editor Will Carr presents a wealth of unpublished and uncollected material.
The End of the World News
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : Viking Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140067460
Book Description
A futuristic account of the world's end is composed of three narrative strands presented as if viewed simultaneously, featuring historical and fictional figures, and shifting from New York, to Vienna, to outer space
Nineteen Eighty-five
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781846689192
Book Description
In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own right.Part two is Burgess' own dystopic vision, written in 1978. He skewers both the present and the future, describing a state where industrial disputes and social unrest compete with overwhelming surveillance, security concerns and the dominance of technology to make life a thing to be suffered rather than lived.Together these two works form a unique guide to one of the twentieth century's most talented, imaginative and prescient writers. Several decades later, Burgess' most singular work still stands.
The Long Day Wanes
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393309430
Book Description
Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward. A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
99 Novels
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : New York : Summit Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess
Author : Jim Clarke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319664115
Book Description
The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess's fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of the twentieth century's most innovative authors. This book explores Burgess's dazzlingly diverse range of novels through the one key theme which links them all – the artistic process itself. Borrowing from Nietzsche's aesthetic dichotomy of Apollo and Dionysus, the book uncovers the protracted evolution of Burgess's fiction and offers a unifying theory which links his early postcolonial fiction chronologically, via his modernist experiments like A Clockwork Orange and Nothing Like The Sun, to his late classics Mozart and the Wolfgang and A Dead Man in Deptford. This volume clarifies Burgess's seminal role as both late modernist and early postmodernist, and lucidly unveils the legacy of England's most mercurial novelist.
A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393239195
Book Description
A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions. A Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago. A nightmare vision of the future told in its own fantastically inventive lexicon, it has since become a classic of modern literature and the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s once-banned film, whose recent reissue has brought this revolutionary tale on modern civilization to an even wider audience. Andrew Biswell, PhD, director of the International Burgess Foundation, has taken a close look at the three varying published editions alongside the original typescript to recreate the novel as Anthony Burgess envisioned it. We publish this landmark edition with its original British cover and six of Burgess’s own illustrations.
Conversations with Anthony Burgess
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604730968
Book Description
Collected interviews with the British author of A Clockwork Orange, ReJoyce: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader, and other works
Earthly Powers
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609450847
Book Description
At the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.
