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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... he'd been a delegate ata conference in the American Midwest. Burgess was there – or rather he wasn't there. He stayed in his motel room typing a James Bond script for Cubby Broccoli. (This muchis true – Burgesswrote a screenplay forThe ...
... he'd signalthat hewas making a conscious show of his indifference. It contributed tothe aura of everything around him seeming unreal. 'Monaco waslike Ruritania, before Grace died. Anoutpostof Hollywood,too, withthese yachts arriving ...
... He'd pretty much ignored Lynne's heavy drinking and general selfdestructiveness when shewas alive; he'd felt helpless. It was a sad affair.Yet shewas backwithin reach inhisnovels, a tormenting, tragic muse. Itwas asifhe hadto ...
... he'd talk of himself, in Mediterranean and Alpineexile, as being cut loose fromthe current ofmodern Britishlife.The reality ofhis homelandwas dead to him. Exileis a postmortem state; when making –like Leonora on the phone – ghostly ...
... he'd heard Lynne's voice, and Beard, Leonora's. Beforehewent into exile, Burgess earned six hundred pounds a year. Thenhe hit the jackpot, with the American Book of the Month Clubandthe sale of the film and dramatic rights of Nothing ...