Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962 and has been controversial ever since. It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Alex - whose chief preoccupations are Beethoven's Ninth and ultra-violence - as he and his droogs rampage though a dystopian future seeking thrills, until they come under the control of the state's sinister apparatus.
El 30 de mayo de 1593, después de un día de borrachera, moría de una puñalada el dramaturgo Christopher Marlowe, un genio de las letras, nacido el mismo año que William Shakespeare y autor de El doctor Faustus. La versión oficial afirmó que el incidente había sucedido durante una discusión por el pago de la cuenta. Pero la sospecha de que Marlowe -autor de prestigio, agente secreto, homosexual, escéptico en materia religiosa y radical en su pensamiento político- fue asesinado por su condición de espía, persiste más de cuatrocientos años después.
The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgesss writings about music. In this extensive compilation of essays and reviews, he covers a vast range of musical topics, from the hurdy-gurdy to Beatlemania and the Sex Pistols, with Burgesss love of English music represented by writings on Elgar, Holst, and Delius. There are essays on Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner and other great composers from Monteverdi to Weill, as well as writings about Burgesss favourite performers, including Yehudi Menuhin, Larry Adler and John Sebastian. Whether whimsical (Food and Music), satirical (Anybody Can Conduct) or controversial (Why Punk Had to End in Evil), Burgesss writing is consistently informative and entertaining.The music of Debussy sparked Burgesss musical imagination so powerfully when he was a boy in Manchester that he composed his first symphony at eighteen years of age and aspired to a career as a professional composer until his mid-thirties. Writings about his own music provides valuable information about many of Burgesss compositions, including his Symphony in C, his works for guitar quartet, and his opera Blooms of Dublin based on Joyces Ulysses.Carcanet also publishes The Ink Trade, a companion volume of literary essays.
In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own right. Part two is Burgess' own dystopic vision, written in 1978. He skewers both the present and the future, describing a state where industrial disputes and social unrest compete with overwhelming surveillance, security concerns and the dominance of technology to make life a thing to be suffered rather than lived. Together these two works form a unique guide to one of the twentieth century's most talented, imaginative and prescient writers. Several decades later, Burgess' most singular work still stands.
Set in Elizabethan England, Burgess's first novel for four years centres on the life of Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford 400 years ago. It portrays a theatre genius riven by sexual and political conflicts.
Tres amics emprenen una misteriosa expedició a la recerca de la terra on creixen els gelats. Muntanyes de pistatxo, un volcà en erupció que escup núvols de crema batuda, un monstre que devora geganti
La naranja mecánica cuenta la historia del nadsat-adolescente Alex y sus tres drugos-amigos en un mundo de crueldad y destrucción. Alex tiene, según Burgess, 'los principales atributos humanos; amor a la agresion, amor al lenguaje, amor a la belleza. Pero es joven y no ha entendido aun la verdadera importancia de la libertad, la que disfruta de un modo tan violento. En cierto sentido vive en el Eden, y solo cuando cae (como en verdad le ocurre, desde una ventana) parece capaz de llegar a transformase en un verdadero ser humano.' En 1971 Stanley Kubrick llevo al cine este relato. Encuadernacion: Tapa dura con sobrecubierta.
