I tried to read this, I really did. I just could not understand any of it, and context clues proved quite challenging. Because I could not understand half of the slang, I could not get into the plot. The only way I could conceive of trying to read this again is if I had a dictionary explaining the s...
It's very well written. He takes the lessons of Joyce and Fauklner and them and uses them for a point (Nabokov's :topical trash"). However, perhaps because I have seen the movie multiple times beforehand, I really dislike the ending. I think it doesn't fit with the tone of the book at all and I t...
A Clockwork Orange is a bit of a disappointment. For all of Anthony Burgess' whining about the importance of the twenty-first chapter, I much prefer the book without it. (Meaning I also prefer Kubrick's version of the novel's conclusion. Let's face it—Kubrick is a bit overrated, but his films are al...
Foreword, by Martin AmisIntroduction, by Andrew Biswell--A Clockwork OrangeNotesNadsat GlossaryPrologue to 'A Clockwork Orange: A Play with Music' by Anthony BurgessEpilogue: 'A Malenky Govoreet about the Molodoy' by Anthony BurgessEssays, Articles and Reviews:'The Human Russians' by Anthony Burgess...
Foreword, by Martin AmisIntroduction, by Andrew Biswell--A Clockwork OrangeNotesNadsat GlossaryPrologue to 'A Clockwork Orange: A Play with Music' by Anthony BurgessEpilogue: 'A Malenky Govoreet about the Molodoy' by Anthony BurgessEssays, Articles and Reviews:'The Human Russians' by Anthony Burgess...
My first thought when I started reading this book was that Anthony Burgess REALLY likes the fact that he knows Russian. In fact, I suspected that his learning Russian, and contemporary spoken Russian, at that, was accompanied by such powerful psychological torment that he would show us just how good...
So, in the somewhat future, some fine young youth does a lot of violence, goes to prison, gets "rehabbed" by a technique to be only good (and therefore has no freewill and is not really a "man") and is then used by anti-government propaganda, resulting in his near death and is then "rehabilitated" t...
A great, dystopian novel which explores the notions of free-will, alienation and duality. Some are put off by the use of made up slang terms (Nadsat) however this device worked well, for me, in creating a real sense of alienation from the start. Burgess did a great job in creating a bizarre world to...
First of all, the ones that have read by blog before might at some point noticed me hyping Stanley Kubrick. Yes, I love him. He was a movie mastermind. He directed movies which you can watch over and over again, always finding something new from them. But I am not going to go on with Kubrick, becaus...
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