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.
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發條橙堪稱英國版麥田守望者,看我看下來,整個故事真的和麥田守望者差好遠,後者明顯有趣很多。發條橙,或許是因為各個版本不一樣,我看的這個版本真的是沒覺得痛快,像是一場沒有高潮的性愛,幾度即將達到高潮但最終還是沒有達到高潮,除瞭淩亂的一些齷蹉的情節像孤星閃耀一...
評分《發條橙》或許不應該單獨閱讀,應該跟《麥田裏的守望者》、《猜火車》、《在路上》放在一起來讀,都是描述“垮掉的一代”的大作,孰優孰劣,各有定論。而結局幾乎相似,無非是對背叛的背叛,對否定的否定,跨過對生活嘲諷和反抗的極端,又落迴生活的五指山,就像夜間縱欲狂歡...
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反正我接受不能。。
評分好多俄語詞 看到第三章纔大概知道這些詞的意思 然後讀起來就比較輕鬆啦 蠻帶感的 感覺比電影還帶感!
評分was so troubled with the so-called nadsat
評分this book is fucking brilliant/被詬病的最後一章我倒覺得銜接得蠻自然的 不過burgess自己也說這本too didactic to be artistic瞭(。/語言棒到我讀的瞠目結舌 麻麻我以後說話隻用nadsat哼
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