Anthony Burgess: A Biography

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Macmillan, 4 feb 2014 - 480 pagina's
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Interviewer: "On what occasions do you lie?" Anthony Burgess: "When I write, when I speak, when I sleep."

He was the last great modernist. Novelist, composer, librettist, essayist, semanticist, translator, critic, Anthony Burgess's versatility and erudition found expression in more than fifty books and dozens of musical compositions, from operas, choral works and song cycles to symphonies and concertos.

Here now is a kaleidoscope of a book--the culmination of twenty years of writing and research--about a man who remains best known for A Clockwork Orange, the source of Stanley Kubrick's ground breaking, mind bending and prescient film.

Tracking Burgess from Manchester to Malaya to Malta to Monte Carlo, Roger Lewis assesses Burgess's struggles and uncovers the web of truth and illusion about the writer's famous antic disposition. Burgess, the author argues, was just as much a literary confidence man and prankster as a consummate wordsmith.

Outrageously funny, honest and touching, Anthony Burgess explores the divisions that characterize its irascible subject and his darkly comic, bleakly beautiful world of fiction.

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From September, worksas Distinguished Professor ofEnglish atCity College, New York; teaches Joyce's Ulysses, Shakespeare, and Creative Writing.They stayin'famous feministand manhater' Adrienne Rich's flat on Riverside Drive, Manhattan, ...
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... when helectured on Communications to a conference of American magazine proprietors, or quite when he was at the university in Nantes, talking about Hopkins and Eliot, and where he formed a relationshipwith Professor Ben Forkner that ...
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Among others present were: Mrs Burgess (widow), Mr Andrew Burgess (son), Mr Ned Sherrin, Drand MrsS G Owen, Mrs E Raeburn, Mrand Mrs MC Battestin, Mrs William Boyd,Mr Anthony Thwaite andMrsAnn Thwaite, Professor and Mrs JackAllanson, ...

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ANTHONY BURGESS: A Biography

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Loquacious portraitist Lewis (The Real Life of Laurence Olivier, 1997, etc.) leaves no stone unturned in his obsessive and hardly sympathetic life of the tortured author of A Clockwork Orange.Born in ... Volledige review lezen

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Lewis, a biographer of both Peter Sellers and Laurence Olivier, presents a spiraling, kaleidoscopic biography of one of the 20th century's most noted authors. While as a novelist he was best known for ... Volledige review lezen

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Jack Be Nimble 191737
Sex and Violence 193846
Renaissance Man 196068
Notes
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Roger Lewis, formerly a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is the author of numerous biographies including Peter Sellers and Laurence Olivier. He is a prolific literary journalist and lives in London.

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TitelAnthony Burgess: A Biography
AuteurRoger Lewis
UitgeverMacmillan, 2014
ISBN1466864524, 9781466864528
Lengte480 pagina's
  
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