Anthony Burgess: A BiographyMacmillan, 4 feb 2014 - 480 pagina's Interviewer: "On what occasions do you lie?" Anthony Burgess: "When I write, when I speak, when I sleep." |
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... It's another Carry Onstyle expedition, with Burgess feda sleeping potionbya doctor who deems him 'unstable and violent when drunk'. Having completed the writingof Nothing Like the Sun, his contribution to the forthcoming Shakespearean ...
... its full title (London, Hutchinson). Moves for several months each year to Lugano, Switzerland. 'The chalet was purchasedby Liana ... and I tried toefface myself totally and presenthertothe Swiss as a sole fem [sic] not welloff whom a ...
... its sham splendour–and restlessnessthan itdoes about the writers and the communityhe abandoned. I said to Liana, wasn'tThe End of the World News based on aborted plays and film scripts– the disaster movie section, the musical about ...
... it's Lawrence's centenary!' I'd already read Flameinto Being, his accountof thelife and work ofD. H. Lawrence,inproof.It wasto be published on 9 September. Aswithmany of Burgess's biographical opuscules (Hemingway, Keats, Orwell ...
... It's impossible not to form theimpression that Burgess, whose primary linkwith Lawrenceis that they wereboth egotists, needed to feel embattled –and, aswith Coriolanus, everybody hadtohear about it. There was a great deal of selfseeking ...