In Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Burgess creates a gloomy future full of violence, rape and destruction. In this dystopian novel, Burgess does a fantastic job of constantly changing the readers’ allegiance toward the books narrator and main character, Alex. Writing in a foreign language, Burgess makes the reader feel like an outsider. As the novel begins, the reader has no emotional connection to Alex. This non-emotional state comes to a sudden halt when Alex and his droogs begin a series of merciless acts of violence. The reader rapidly begins to form what seems to be an irreversible ...
Abba Abba is about two poets who may or may not have met in Rome in 1820-1821. One was John Keats, who was dying in a house on the Spanish Steps. The other was Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli a great poet, though little known outside Rome. The first part of the book is about Keats and Belli. The second part presents Belli himself as poet, translated by Mr. Burgess.
"A brilliant and breathless performance…vintage Burgess… The whole performance stuns." – The Boston Globe"Readers will howl with laughter – a wickedly amusing book." – The Atlantic Monthly"Resurrected by popular request… Enderby the poet stalks about in this fourth Enderby novel, the mouthpiece, as usual, of his author's concern for language and sardonic, sometimes sour appraisal of modern popular culture… Burgess displays the uncanny ear for dialect for which he is noted and, with customary bravado, opens and closes his story with Will Shakespeare himself." – Publishers Weekly"Enderby / Burgess is an absolutely hilarious and sage observer of ...
Inside Mr Enderby is a the first volume in the four-book Enderby series of comic novels by the British author Anthony Burgess.The book was first published in 1963 in London by William Heinemann under the pseudonym Joseph Kell. The series began in 1963 with the publication of this book, and concluded in 1984 with Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby (after a ten year break following the publication of the third novel in the series, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End).The story opens on a note of pure fantasy, showing schoolchildren from the future taking a ...
La pregunta que plantea este libro, una de las obras fundamentales en la literatura del siglo XX, no deber?a ser la m?s obvia, la que aparece en la superficie del texto: `?Es el hombre un ser violento?`, sino: `?Es la sociedad violenta con sus miembros?`.Porque La naranja mec?nica trata principalmente de la libertad del individuo contrapuesta al bien del colectivo, o m?s bien se plantea hasta qu? punto es leg?timo que el colectivo, a trav?s de sus representantes (?o son los representantes los que deciden en ?ltima instancia por el colectivo?), ...
Dzieje si? to w przysz?o?ci nieokre?lonej i w mie?cie te? nie ca?kiem okre?lonym. Tylko nieliczne realia wskazuj?, mo?e niechc?cy, ?e to Anglia i poniek?d Londyn. Wi?c jakby w tej specyficznej i nadzwyczaj wa?kiej odmianie zwanej dystopia: na krytyce politycznej i spo?ecznej zbudowany, pos?pny, do katastrofizmu sk?onny rodzaj utopii. Kolejne w szeregu imponuj?cych dzie?, jakie stworzyli nie tylko George Orwell, bo i Zamiatin, Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, Karin Boye i wielu innych. A teraz Anthony Burgess.Jednak niedaleka to przysz?o?? i pod niekt?rymi wzgl?dami ?atwo kojarz?ca si? dniem dzisiejszym…
From the author of A Clockwork Orange, a brilliantly funny spy novel.Has more wit and comic invention than the books which it so boisterously ridicules. – New Republic
