A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

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Penguin , 1981 - Fiction - 149 pp. Writing on the title page.

'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'.

In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost ? Social prophecy ? Black comedy ? Study of freewill ? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.

Review:

A gruesomely witty cautionary tale Time.

Every generation should discover this book Time Out.

Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language Daily Telegraph.

I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language...a very funny book -- William S. Burroughs.

One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation The Times.

About the author (2011)

nthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. From 1954 to 1960 he was stationed in Malaysia as an education officer - during this time he started writing The Malayan Trilogy. Diagnosed with an unoperable brain tumour in 1959, Burgess became a full-time writer and went on to write a book a year up until his death in 1993. His many works include: The Complete Enderby, Tremor of Intent, The Kingdom of the Wicked and A Clockwork Orange.

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