John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL ( 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a highly controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including for the 1977 TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex, and the opera Carmen, among others. Burgess also composed over 250 musical works; he considered himself as much a composer as an author, although he enjoyed considerably more success in writing
Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis 'It is a horrorshow story ...' Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean? A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'. Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959. His books have been published all over the world, and they include The Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor of Intent, Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford. Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993. Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. His publications include a biography, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, which won the Portico Prize in 2006. He is currently editing the letters and short stories of Anthony Burgess.
摘自《南方网》 作者:阮一峰 和大多数人一样,我是先看电影,然后再去读小说的。记得看完电影的时候,有一种震撼的感觉,但是又说不清震撼我的到底是什么。现在想起来,好象库布里克(Stanley Kubrick,1928—1999)的电影都不是一眼能看穿的,似乎有一种伪装分散了人们...
評分我的中篇《发条橙》于一九六二年初版,现在时间已过去很久了,久得足以为世界文学界所忘却了。然而,它拒绝被忘却,这主要归功于斯但利·库勃里克的同名电影。 我自己非常乐意与它断绝关系,理由有许多,可惜做不到。我收到过学生的来信,说要写论文讨论它,日本的戏剧界也要...
評分摘自《博客大巴》 作者:Manie Stupide 初识《发条橙》,还是在学校的图书馆,(说真的,这里要有什么了不起的地方,那就是它的图书馆,确切的说,是里面的书)。那时候我对什么国家机器和机械论道德观都还一无所知,认真读过的英国文学作品也只有艾略特的《荒原》和...
Alex was 15
评分my only 20th birthday gift from Piers
评分看完全英原版就真的要開始寫論文瞭。這次是絕對賴不瞭瞭。
评分What's it gonna be then, eh?
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