After demobilization, he worked first as a college lecturer in Speech and Drama and then as a grammar-school master before becoming an education officer in the Colonial Service, stationed in Malay and Borneo. He studied English at Manchester University and joined the army in 1940 where he spent six years in the Education Corps. 'One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation' The TimesĪnthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. 'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language.a very funny book' William S. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language' Daily Telegraph 'Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. 'A gruesomely witty cautionary tale' Time 'Every generation should discover this book' Time Out It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future. Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. A Clockwork Orange is the daring and electrifying book by Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |