Anthony Burgess

Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, 1985 combines a devastating critique of Orwell's 1984 with a terrifying vision of the future. As memorable as A Clockwork Orange, it is as powerful and unsettling as anything Burgess has written. First published in 1978, its thoughts and ideas still hold very true today.

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling against society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”

With A Dead Man in Deptford, Burgess concluded his literary career to overwhelming acclaim for his re-creation of the Elizabethan poet Christopher Marlowe. In lavish, pitch-perfect, and supple, readable prose, Burgess matches his splendid Shakespeare novel, Nothing Like the Sun. The whole world of Elizabethan England—from the intrigues of the courtroom, through the violent streets of London, to the glory of the theater—comes alive in this joyous celebration of the life of Christopher Marlowe, murdered in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford more than four hundred years ago.

Der junge Alex prügelt, vergewaltigt, tötet - bis man mit Hilfe moderner Technik einen wahren Christen aus ihm macht. Doch zu welchem Preis?

Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, is regarded as one of the most original and daring writers in the English language. His work is illuminated by a dazzling imagination, by a gift for character and plot, by a talent for surprise. In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power—Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career—one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile—their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.

A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar.

La naranja mecánica cuenta la historia del nadsat-adolescente Alex y sus tres drugos-amigos en un mundo de crueldad y destrucción. Alex tiene los principales atributos humanos: amor a la agresión, amor al lenguaje, amor a la belleza. Pero es joven y no ha entendido aún la verdadera importancia de la libertad, la que disfruta de un modo violento. En cierto sentido vive en el Edén, y sólo cuando cae (como en verdad le ocurre, desde una ventana) parece capaz de llegar a transformarse en un verdadero ser humano.

Narrada pelo protagonista, o adolescente Alex, esta brilhante e perturbadora história cria uma sociedade futurista em que a violência atinge proporções gigantescas e provoca uma reposta igualmente agressiva de um governo totalitário. A estranha linguagem utilizada por Alex – soberbamente engendrada pelo autor – empresta uma dimensão quase lírica ao texto. Ao lado de 1984, de George Orwell, e Admirável Mundo Novo, de Aldous Huxley, Laranja Mecânica é um dos ícones literários da alienação pós-industrial que caracterizou o século XX. Adaptado com maestria para o cinema em 1972 por Stanley Kubrick, é uma obra marcante: depois da sua leitura, você jamais será o mesmo.

Müziğin bir süsten, bir oyuncaktan, boş hayatlarınızı süsleyen sesli bir duvar kâğıdından daha fazla bir şey olduğu bilmem hiç aklınıza geldi mi krallar, kraliçeler, asilzadeler? (...) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'ın iki yüzüncü ölüm yıldönümü olan 1991 yılında yayımlanan Mozart ve Deyyuslar, ünlü bestecinin kişiliğini ve eserlerini anlamak için yazılmış belki de en eğlenceli kitap; felsefi, teolojik, ironik göndermelerle dolu bir roman. Eleştirmenlere göre "40. Senfoni'yi edebiyata dönüştürmek için Stendhalvari bir çaba" olan kitapta Burgess'ın dehasına bir kez daha şapka çıkaracaksınız.

Faimosul autor al Portocalei mecanice iluminează în acest roman somptuos, impregnat de spiritul elisabetan, firele nevăzute dintre viața și operele lui Shakespeare. De la ipostaza adolescentului obsedat de cuvintele rare sau inventate, la cea a poetului și dramaturgului în plină forță creatoare, romanul urmează itinerariul iubirilor lui Shakespeare, povestea lui de seducător și sedus reflectată în Sonete și în piesele de teatru. În acest roman ambițios, scris pentru a marca împlinirea a patru secole de la nașterea Marelui Will, Anthony Burgess combină reconstituirea istorică și erudiția lingvistică cu umorul debordant, naratorul omniscient care relatează parcursul lui WS fiind un lector britanic de literatură engleză detașat în Orient, cu înclinații bahice, frustrat de ignoranța și de lipsa de apetit intelectual a studenților săi. Cariera protagonistului WS este spectaculoasă – mănușarul provincial ajunge actor, apoi dramaturg și, într-un târziu, acționar al unei trupe de teatru londoneze, dar nu mai puțin spectaculoase sunt turbulențele politice din epoca elisabetană și intrigile de la Curte. WS preferă însă postura de observator imparțial al istoriei, refuzând să se implice în jocurile periculoase ce duc la căderea multor figuri de seamă ale vremii. Prietenia care-l leagă de tânărul și răsfățatul conte de Southampton și iubirea pentru misterioasa amantă exotică evocată în sonetele dedicate Doamnei Brune îi vor modela opera și îi vor hotărî destinul.

With film rights acquired by Francis Ford Coppola, this comic novel of instant riches is back in stock. From the author of A Clockwork Orange, One Hand Clapping is a comedy of game shows and greed, high stakes and the high life. The tragi-comedy of used car salesman Howard Shirley, his photographic brain, and the modern world's trivia and trivialities makes for vintage Burgess—at once hilarious and provocative. “Witty and shrewdly joyful.”—The New York Times Book Review “A funny, pointed novel.”—The New Yorker “Ingeniously and devilishly funny.”—The Atlantic Monthly

“Tüm hayvanların en zekisi, iyiliğin ne demek olduğunu bilen insanoğluna bir baskı yöntemi uygulayarak onu otomatik işleyen bir makine haline getirenlere kılıç kadar keskin olan kalemimle saldırmaktan başka hiçbir şey yapamıyorum…” Karabasan gibi bir gelecek atmosferi… Geceleyin sokakları terörize eden, yaşamları şiddet üzerine kurulu gençler ve bu hikâyenin anti-kahramanı Alex… Yayımlandığı günden bu yana “kült roman” özelliğini kaybetmeyen Otomatik Portakal’ın 15 yaşındaki kahramanı, “iyi ya da kötü nedir?”, “İnsan özgür iradesiyle kaderini seçebilir mi?” gibi soruların yanıtlarını kurcalarken, şiddet dolu sahnelere Beethoven’ın, Mozart’ın müziği eşlik ediyor; Alex ve “çete kardeşleri” Pete, Georgie ve Aptalof, yarattıkları yepyeni dilin kelimelerini okurun zihnine kazıyorlar. Ünlü yönetmen Stanley Kubrick tarafından 1971’de filme de çekilen Otomatik Portakal tüm zamanların en sarsıcı romanlarından. “Cockney dilinde (İngiliz argosu) bir deyiş vardır. ‘Uqueer as as clockwork orange’. Bu deyiş, olabilecek en yüksek derecede gariplikleri barındıran kişi anlamına gelir. Bu çok sevdiğim lafı, yıllarca bir kitap başlığında kullanmayı düşünmüşümdür. Bir de tabii Malezya’da ‘canlı’ anlamına gelen ‘orang’ sözcüğü var. Kitabı yazmaya başladığımda, rengi ve kokusu hoş bir meyvenin kullanıldığı bu deyişin, tam da anlatmak istediğim duruma, Pavlov kanunlarının uygulanmasına dayalı bir hikâyeye çok iyi oturduğunu düşündüm.” - Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess’s most famous novel and its impact on literary, musical and visual culture has been extensive. The novel is concerned with the conflict between the individual and the state, the punishment of young criminals, and the possibility or otherwise of redemption. The linguistic originality of the book, and the moral questions it raises, are as relevant now as they ever anthonyburgess.org

Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. 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. But whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex film on a TV chat show, or writing a hit musical based on the life and work of Shakespeare, Enderby emerges triumphant.

Set in the near future,  The Wanting Seed  is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.

A brilliantly funny spy novel, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, and treachery. From the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange. Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His old school friend Roper has defected to the USSR to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must bring Roper back to England or risk losing his fat retirement bonus. As thoughtful as it is funny, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, treachery, and religion. Anthony Burgess's cast of astonishing characters includes Roper's German prostitute wife; Miss Devi and her Tamil love treatise; and the large Mr. Theodorescu, international secret monger and lascivious gourmand. A rare combination of the deadly serious and the absurd, the lofty and the lusty, Tremor of Intent will hold you in its thrall.

"Заводной апельсин" - литературный парадокс XX столетия. Продолжая футуристические традиции и литературе, экспериментируя с языком, на котором говорит рубежное поколение malltshipalltshikov и kisok "надсатых", Энтони Бёрджесс создает роман, признанный классикой современной литературы. Умный, жестокий, харизматичный антигерой Алекс, лидер уличной банды, проповедуя насилие как высокое искусство жизни, как род наслаждения, попадает в железные тиски новейшей государственной программы по перевоспитанию преступников и сам становится жертвой насилия. Можно ли спасти мир от зла, лишая человека воли совершать поступки и превращая его в "заводной апельсин". Этот вопрос сегодня актуален так же, как и вчера, и вопрос этот автор задает читателю.