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Anthony Burgess
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Aggeler, Geoffrey. Anthony Burgess: The Artist as Novelist. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,
Aggeler’s text pursues and enlarges issues raised in DeVitis , and offers much useful analysis of some core issues in Burgess studies, such as the debate between the Pelagian and Augustinian impulses and Burgess’s treatment of artist-protagonists.
Clarke, Jim. The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess: Fire of Words. London: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Clarke attempts to create a grand narrative of Burgess’s eclectic fictional output by focusing primarily on the role of artistic creativity in Burgess’s novels. Borrowing a critical framework from Nietzsche that substitutes the German’s Apollo-Dionysus binary for Burgess’s own eccentric Pelagius-Augustine one, Clarke divides Burgess’s career into three distinct artistic phases, and he isolates Burgess’s encounter with Structuralism as a significant point of change in the early s.
Coale, Samuel. Anthony Burgess. New York: Frederick Ungar,
Follows the by now well-trodden path of a chronological division of the oeuvre defined by theme. However, Coale’s treatment of Burgess’s use
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Anthony Burgess was a diversely talented Englishman whose reputation, lamentably, rests almost exclusively on his best-known (and his least favorite) work, the novel A Clockwork Orange. The futuristic novel, an impassioned yet even-handed plea for the necessity of human free will, stirred up controversy with its ultra-violent content narrated largely through a Russian-influenced slang of Burgess's invention, "nadsat." The film version by Stanley Kubrick provoked enough "copycat" crimes - a great irony, considering both the book and film decry unconscious, deterministic acts, yet tolerate evil so long as it is willfully chosen - that Kubrick banned the showing of it in the United Kingdom in (only recently was the ban repealed).
But Burgess was a far more complete artist than A Clockwork Orange suggests. Born John Anthony Burgess Wilson on Feb. 25, , in Manchester, England, to Catholic parents, his mother died of the flu when he was two, and he was brought up by his aunt and later his stepmother. He studied English at Xaverian College and Manchester University and, after graduation in , served in the British Army Education Corps during World War II as the musical director of a special