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Biographie et livres d'Anthony Burgess
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Penguin
2023-05-25
Un chef-d'œuvre de science-fiction par l'auteur de L'Orange mécanique Alors que la Terre est épuisée par la surpopulation, les autorités luttent avec acharnement contre ce fléau. On encourage l'homosexualité – " Qui dit Sapiens dit Homo ", proclame le ministère de...
L’auteur de L’Orange mécanique n’était pas seulement un romancier génial, il était aussi un essayiste inattendu. Dans ce recueil de ses meilleurs articles, on croisera Sophia Loren, Yves Saint Laurent, Graham Greene, George Orwell ; on y lira des fabuleuses critiques de...
" Le mal ne prend-il pas souvent l'apparence du bien ? II fallait le talent et la langue de l'auteur de L'Orange mécanique pour nous tenir en haleine, sur plus de mille pages, sur ce vaste sujet." Madame Figaro. Tout le XXe siècle passe dans ces Puissances des ténèbres,...
Dans un monde dystopique furieusement proche du nôtre, le jeune Alex s'ingénie à commettre le mal sans le moindre remords : en compagnie de ses drougs, il se livre à la bastonnade, au viol et à la torture sur fond de musique classique. Bientôt incarcéré, il subit un...
Professeur de littérature anglaise, Enderby a écrit un scénario tiré du poème de Gerard Manley Hopkins, Le Naufrage du Deutschland. Mais le cinéaste engagé en a complètement détourné l'histoire pour la rendre plus scabreuse, mettant principalement en scène le viol de...
'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class'ObserverAnthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In The Malayan Trilogy - Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East - he satirises the...
After returning from a trip to Brunei, Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles. It is the life of a man desperate to earn a living through the written word. He finds at first...
Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for...
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...
These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; whilst serving in Gibraltar in World War II he was thrown into jail on VE Day for calling Franco names; he once taught a group of Nazi socialites that the English...
Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. These two men are linked not only by family ties...
Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita. Whether he is pursuing revenge and...
'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language ... a very funny book' William S. Burroughs Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a...
Michael Byrne is an Irish Don Juan - a composer, a charmer, a bigamist and a thug. He moves from country to country, from bed to bed, selling his talents and leaving a trail of children in his wake. His journey takes him from post-Great War London to the centre of...
'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'Irish TimesA Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy,...
Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter. But in the streets of Castita's capital, where a wild religious...
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