![]() ![]() ![]() With critics like William Burroughs, who mistook his muddle of sadism, teddyboyism, jive talk and Berlitz Russian for social philosophy.")Įditors at The Times Book Review selected the best fiction and nonfiction titles of the year. Burgess quotes a critic who wrote of it, and him: "Anthony Burgess is a literary smart aleck whose novel 'A Clockwork Orange' last year achieved a Those whose ear responds only faintly to the mention of Anthony Burgess will recognize him as the author of "A Clockwork Orange," a book that achieved immortality when Stanley Kubrick made a movie of it. Otherwise, there is sure to be a fourth, so compulsive is his productive energy. $23.50.Īnthony Burgess is an insistent literary presence who comes at us from every direction and who has just now published the second volume in an autobiography that is scheduled to go to a third volume - on the assumption that he will die sometime soon, say before the millennium (he thinks this likely: "I cannot keep myself healthy - too many bad habits deeply ingrained, cardiac bronchitis like the orchestra of death tuning up under water"). The Second Part of the Confessions.By Anthony Burgess.403 pp. ![]()
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