Anthony Burgess

1917 - 1993 *

novelist and critic, born in Manchester, whose works address social concerns.

Anthony Burgess was born and educated in Manchester. He worked briefly for the ministry of education and then served abroad in Borneo and Malaya.

Burgess' work explored extensively the relationship between literature and music. Additionally, his work addrsses many social concerns. His most famous novel, A Clockwork Orange, follows a group of violent youths in a future age who adopt their own language and terrorize society. The work developed a cult following after its release as a motion picture in 1971.

Burgess was also a renowned literature critic, analysing the works of many classic literature authors.

          Source: Classics Network Editorial Team

A brief biographical sketch of Anthony Burgess


British Writer, Composer, Librettist, Linguist, Journalist, Poet, Joyce-scholar, University Professor and Literary Critic, whose best-known works include Clockwork of Orange and Kingdom of the Wicked. Booker Prize Nominee, Winner of Governor's Poetry Award.

Burgess was a musical and literary genius. He was colour blind but could see colours in music. He was capable of writing a minimum of 2000 words a day clean copy, and composed symphonies in his head, without access to a piano. He attended university to study literature, bu... [read entire biography]

          Source: LiteratureClassics.com Editorial Team

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An Interview with Roger Lewis -- An exclusive interview with Roger Lewis about his forthcoming biography of Anthony Burgess.
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November 22nd, 2002 -- On occasion of th 9th anniversary of the death of Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess's A Mouthful of Air - An Overview -- A comprehensive assessment of Burgess's outstanding language book, which includes excerpts, a chapter outline and reviews.
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Anthony Burgess's Revolutionary Sonnets - Review -- Review of the new Burgess poetry book, edited by Kevin Jackson
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41 Facts on Anthony Burgess -- An interesting collection of background information about Burgess.
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Bibliography of Burgess's Books -- A complete bibliography of Burgess books and translations, in alphabetical order.
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Miscellaneous

		Anthony Burgess center at University of Texas in Austin -- they have most of Burgess' papers, contains an itemisation and contact information http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/bu... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 727 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it] Anthony Burgess Center -- Anthony Burgess Center at University of Angers, with newsletter, info and links http://buweb.univ-angers.fr/EXTRANET/Ant... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 689 7 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it] Anthony Burgess Guardian Newspaper webpage -- author page on Burgess by England's Guardian Newspaper http://www.books.guardian.co.uk/authors/... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 530 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it] Anthony Burgess website, maintained by fans -- website about Anthony Burgess, with links http://www.anthonyburgess.com Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 469 3 users have rated it an average of 5 stars     [rate it] Anthony Burgess page on website of critic Dana Goioia -- critique of Burgess last novel, Byrne, with excerpts, by BBC journalist http://www.danagoioia.net/essays/eburges... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 478 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it] Anthony Burgess website, with links and information -- website about Anthony Burgess, with links http://www.linkstoliterature.com/burgess... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 391 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it]

     

  Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist

, ReJoyce    

  In every major artist there seems to be a conflict between the urge to swallow everything and the desire to select and shape

, ReJoyce    

  The average reader does not want to get outside life, to view it detachedly and indifferently; he requires the illusion of being more deeply involved in it

, ReJoyce    

  The aesthetic lecture has a purely intellectual appeal, and novel-readers, rightly, cannot bear very much intellectuality

, ReJoyce    

  The mind naturally strays and wanders, holding to nothing very long, coming back frequently to the same point again and again but rarely staying there

, ReJoyce    

  The creation of a human community in fiction is the closest the novelist can get to the creation of a cosmos

, ReJoyce    

  If you reject family - which a mother holds together - as well as the ties of Church and State, is there anything left for you?

, ReJoyce    

  Life has to go on, in spite of other people's deaths

, ReJoyce    

  Every man yearns for immortality

, ReJoyce    

  Meat-eating is, after all, a species of cannibalism: a pig or a rabbit can be, in life, a member of the family

, ReJoyce    

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