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The first comprehensive life of English novelist, critic, and composer Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange. Admired worldwide for his literary novels, including the masterpiece Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess also achieved notoriety for the ultra-violent shocker, A Clockwork Orange. In this new biography, Andrew Bisswell charts Burgess' life from his solitary and motherless childhood to his triumphant emergence as a writer, critic, and composer. He also casts new light on Burgess' complicated relationship with director Stanley Kubrick, looks with sensitivity at his tempestuous first marriage, and explores his erotic entanglements with Graham Greene and William Burroughs. Drawing on extensive interviews, unpublished writings, letters, and diaries, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess reveals both the writer and the man as never before.
John Burgess Wilson (1917-93), later known as Anthony Burgess, famed novelist, book reviewer, TV critic, translator, script writer, performer, cultural critic, and composer, was told by his part-time cinema piano player father, speaking of musical invention, "Find middle C and you have found everything." It could be argued, after reading this splendid, well-researched biography, that Burgess never found middle C in his life. He did find many varied achievements, despite the fact that he was creative with the truth, drank and smoked excessively, and was sexually promiscuous. (So was his wife, Lynne, yet their marriage endured until her death.) Plagued by religious doubts, Burgess was influenced early on by James Joyce, as well as Pound, Hopkins, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas. His language-loving fiction concerned itself with original sin, the corruption of human flesh, acts of wickedness, and man's capacity for evil, somewhat alleviated by melancholy, introspection, and dark humor. These characteristics can be found in different measure in his most recognized work, the violence-oriented A Clockwork Orange. What is clear from this biography is that Burgess was rebelling against authority-religious, institutional, cultural-unrepentant, dutiful to his cause until the end of his life. Recommended for large public and academic libraries.
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