Questions tagged [anthony-burgess]
Questions about the 20th-century English writer Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993) or about any of his literary works, most famously "A Clockwork Orange".
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Is this an editing error in this part of 1985 by Anthony Burgess?
-(Interviewer)You’re under arrest.
-(Burgess) I beg your pardon?
-You’re under arrest.
-You’re joking. Yes, joking. I knew somehow you were joking.
-But for a moment you thought I was serious.
-Yes, I ...
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What does Anthony Burgess mean about "the State is all that matters and no one has a right to hear Beethoven"?
That’s what I believe in – mind, free mind, trying to understand itself as well as the world without, and to hell with the little men who try to stop free enquiry and the State is all that matters and ...
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What does "Christnique" mean in "1985" by Anthony Burgess?
This word appears twice in 1985 by Anthony Burgess:
‘That’s it. Without us how would the Christniques get on?’
They go out wanting to be cracked. Then they practise the Christnique of loving your ...
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What are "devices of orthodoxy" in this context?
White always mates because the better player has opted for the white
pieces. But black is free to win if he can.
In that its citizens are free to play the game of memory control, of
working out the ...
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İn what context did Lord of the Flies get mentioned in "Ape and Essence"?
Look at the literature that came out of the late forties and the
fifties. Take Aldous Huxley’s Ape and Essence with its picture of
post-Bomb Southern California reverted to savagery, with mutated
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The distinction between the Orwell's belief about real world and his imagination
Orwell seemed to believe that the real world, as opposed to that of
his feverish and genuinely diseased imagination, was moving in the
direction of bigger and worse cacotopias.
1985 by Anthony Burgess
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A Clockwork Orange: Latvian translation of Nadsat
Does anyone happen to know if A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess has been translated into Latvian? If so, is there a Latvian word list for Nadsat, the fictional teen slang in the book, and is it ...
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Do word replacements in "A Clockwork Orange" affect the interpretation of the book as a whole?
Recently, I started reading "A Clockwork Orange" in English. A feature of the book that jumped out at me was that a lot of words used by the main character are adapted from Russian.
Since I am a ...
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Was "Earthly Powers" actually based on Burgess' private, and secret life?
The gay-oriented book Earthly Powers (1980)
was narrated by an 81-year-old successful, homosexual writer, Kenneth Toomey, a figure loosely based on W. Somerset Maugham.
However, it seems that ...
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