Bücher von Anthony Burgess

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviewsEdited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis'It is a horrorshow story ...'Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'.Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959. His books have been published all over the world, and they include The Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor of Intent, Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford. Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993.Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. His publications include a biography, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, which won the Portico Prize in 2006. He is currently editing the letters and short stories of Anthony Burgess.

In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?

Semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971.

From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation. The Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics.As governments struggle to maintain order in the face of overpopulation and food shortages and homosexuality is glorified in an attempt to further limit family sizes, Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna find themselves facing dire choices. Their world transforms into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger.

Jetzt ein Tiger, erschienen 1956, ist die erste Romanveröffentlichung des britischen Schriftstellers Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) und zugleich der erste Teil seiner berühmten Malaya-Trilogie.Als Anthony Burgess 1954 als Lehrer nach Malaya kam, zeichnete sich die drei Jahre später erlangte Unabhängigkeit schon ab. Unklar war, wie es mit dem Land weitergehen würde: Gegen Ende der Kolonialzeit lebten dort neben den meist muslimischen Malaien zahlreiche Inder und Chinesen mit ihren jeweiligen Religionen, Traditionen und Sprachen; im Dschungel führten die Briten Krieg gegen den militärischen Arm der Kommunistischen Partei Malayas.Mit dieser Situation in der Schlussphase des Britischen Empire konfrontiert Burgess den fiktiven Lehrer Victor ­Crabbe, dessen idealistisches Bemühen, das Land an den Errungenschaften der abendländischen Zivilisation teilhaben zu lassen, die Romantrilogie zusammenhält. So entsteht eine vielschichtige und vielstimmige Komposition, welche die Konflikte zwischen den Bevölkerungsgruppen ebenso sichtbar macht wie den Rassismus und die Unfähigkeit vieler Kolonial­herren. Dass Burgess mit seiner typischen Mischung aus Ironie, Wortwitz und überbordender Komik erzählt und dabei auf seine eigenen Erfahrungen in Malaya zurückgreift, macht die Trilogie zu einem seiner besten Werke neben Uhrwerk Orange (1962) und Der Fürst der Phantome (1980). Unvergessen sind Figuren wie der britische Police Lieutenant Nabby Adams, dessen unstillbarer Bierdurst in Jetzt ein Tiger eine shakespearesche Komödienhandlung in Gang setzt.

Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward.

Ein großer Roman als Jahrhundertrevue, kolportiert, erfunden und in Szene gesetzt von einem der garstigsten und unverdrossensten Schriftsteller der Gegenwart. Die Heiligen und die Dämonen des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts geben sich ein Stelldichein zu einer Verwechslungskomödie. Eine Art katholischer Teufel scheint die oberste Regie zu führen, der seinen Kunden die glänzendsten und verrufensten Orte der Welt präsentiert: Monte Carlo und das amerikanische Paris der 20er Jahre, den Vatikan und den Kurfürstendamm, Hollywood und Buchenwald.

Alex ist Anführer einer Londoner Jugendbande und begeisterter Beethoven-Fan. Seine Gang lebt in einem trostlosen Vorort und benutzt eine eigenwillige Sprache, einen von russischen Brocken durchsetzten Slang. Ihr Leben dreht sich um Schlägereien mit anderen Gangs, Raubüberfälle und Vergewaltigungen. Alex' Eltern kriegen ihn nicht in den Griff, denn er hat keinerlei Respekt vor ihnen. Aber auch Alex' Freunde sind mit ihrem Anführer nicht mehr zufrieden. Bei einem ihrer Raubzüge lassen sie ihn im Stich und die Polizei nimmt ihn fest. Wegen Mordes wird er zu einer langjährigen Haftstrafe verurteilt, bekommt aber eine letzte Chance: Ein neuartiges Experiment soll ihn zu einem guten Bürger umerziehen.Der große Roman von Anthony Burgess über Gut und Böse, über Freiheit und Zwang in neuer Übersetzung der ursprünglichen Fassung. Mit ergänzenden Texten zu Buch, Film und Theaterstück.

My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who wants to know Joyce's work but has been scared off by the professors. The appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke; the profundities are always expressed in good round Dublin terms; Joyce's heroes are humble men.

'What can literature and music do for each other?' In This man and music, novelist and composer Anthony Burgess explores the topic, touching on composition, poetry, prose, and his own personal experiences. -- .

Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. This is the story of Alex and his teenage gang, "The Droogs", their life of rape and murder, and "ultraviolence", and the moral dilemma that arises when Alex is brainwashed into good citizenship.

Here is a midsummer night's dream of a novel, Anthony Burgess in a mood of comic whimsy. A baronet, Sir Benjamin Drayton, has received a consignment of stone statues of gods and goddesses, including Venus. A ring slipped on Venus's finger by a young man about to be married upsets a number of arrangements, including the wedding plans.

The playground of Mr. Burgess' humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face of England hardened into a standardized grimace. He is appalled by his observations in all quarters of cheapness, shallowness, vice. He is appalled also by monotony. But monotony reigns only briefly. Soon Everett, the broken-down poet, and Winterbottom, the printer, have involved him in affairs which put a strain on his holiday spirit. And with the appearance of Mr. Raj, Ceylonese gentleman, persistent lecher and unflagging sociologist, speed quickens and control diminishes as Denham is carried helpless down the homestretch of his grueling comic course. Mr. Burgess' humor stems from the depth of life rather than from its surface. His people are so vividly alive, and the anger, laughter and melodrama of their experiences so affecting that their story takes on dimension rare in novels so thoroughly entertaining.

"Fine, sly, rich comedy... "-The New York Times Book Review