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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... once – novelist, journalist, composer, pundit, television and radio personality, wouldbe Broadway and Hollywood operator, translator, afterdinner speaker, showman, academic lecturer, teacher; hewasall over theplace, like Ulysses blown ...
... St John's and of Brasenose, where he couldbe found most lunchtimes quaffing (the only word) from his personalised silver tankard. He'drecently been anointed CBE. As Philip Larkin once said, 'Isn't England a marvellous, free,
A Biography Roger Lewis. As Philip Larkin once said, 'Isn't England a marvellous, free, open country? Take a chap like old John Wain, now. No advantages of birth or position orwealth or energy or charm orlooksor talent – nothing, and ...
... once said, 'and I have been grantedmore light by the Mediterranean sun than by the perpetually overcast skies of England.' Living in Malta, Monte Carlo, Rome,onthe lake at Bracciano, and in Provence,he couldthus dazzleus with epic ...
... once smiled bemusedly or twinkled at the absurdity of being calledlots ofnames simultaneously. You'd think that, by acomplicit gleam inhis eyes,he'd signalthat hewas making a conscious show of his indifference. It contributed tothe aura ...
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Sex and Violence 193846 | |
Renaissance Man 196068 | |
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ABs BA Manchester 193740 Appendix B TheCousins Appendix C Burgesss Keats KeatssBurgess Sources and Acknowledgements | |