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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... ofhis lecture (see June 1970), which was 'slowly but carefully turned into typescript fromthe magnetic tapes, and theediting was done by theauthor himself'. 1974 April: The villa in Lija is confiscated by the Maltese government ...
... ofhis musical compositions is another job again. He had a dozen careers all at once – novelist, journalist, composer, pundit, television and radio personality, wouldbe Broadway and Hollywood operator, translator, afterdinner speaker ...
... ofhis lifehewent blindandcut aHomeric, Miltonic, Borgesian figurein the Senior Common Rooms. I fancy he even moved ... of his later books,including Earthly Powers, she was like a Captain of Artillery attending.
... ofhis audiences' (or spectators') credulity – except he couldnever imagine the thoughtsand reactions ofothers–just as there's no sympathetic orspiritual contactwith his readers. It was clear,from a few momentsinhis company, that hewas ...
... ofhis inflated epicswhich encompassed the sinking of the Titanic,the Great War,theRussian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, andthe victims of Yalta, and thereby avoided any reverberations of failed love affairs in ...