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3 giorni fa · Slowly the book's critical capital began to rise to the point that, in 1957, Northrop Frye described Finnegans Wake as the "chief ironic epic of our time" and Anthony Burgess lauded the book as "a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page."
- James Joyce
- 1939
3 giorni fa · Burgess ci porta nel mondo sanguinolento di Alex, un giovanissimo criminale a capo di una banda di teppistelli, amante di quella che nel contesto narrativo è violenza gratuita, ma che ribadisco non lo è per il lettore accorto.
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7 giu 2024 · In this essay from the Anthony Burgess Foundation’s archive, written in 1990 and apparently never published, Burgess reflects on his experience of the Second World War. Conscripted into the British Army in 1940, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, stationed at Newbattle Abbey, near Edinburgh, and was later transferred into the ...
21 giu 2024 · As we prepare for a UK General Election, we explore the political opinions of Anthony Burgess and how they are revealed in his fiction.
18 giu 2024 · (1917–93),British novelist, composer, and critic, born in Manchester into a Catholic family, educated at the University of Manchester. An accomplished musician, Burgess maintained his interest in music throughout his varied career, composing orchestral works as well as those in more popular forms, including a musical version of ...
4 giorni fa · Shakespeare. Anthony Burgess wrote this essay for the New York Times in 1970, the year in which his Shakespeare biography was published. After completing a lecture tour of Europe and the United States, he was teaching at Princeton University.
4 giu 2024 · Daniel Felsenfeld will compose a new work for 2025, based on an unpublished Anthony Burgess poem. The American composer Daniel Felsenfeld (b. 1970) has been invited to create a new work for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble, based on a poem by Anthony Burgess (1917-1993).
