Biography EssayWidely regarded as one of the foremost contemporary fiction writers in English, Anthony Burgess began his long and prolific literary career while living in Malaya during the late 1950s....
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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was one of the most prolific literary figures of the 20th century, producing a large number of novels, plays, biographies, screenplays, criticism, and articles.John Anthony...
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Anthony Burgess was a British writer of enormous powers and capacity. Starting his writing career at age forty-two, he was still able to create over fifty books of fiction, criticism, essays, and tran...
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Widely regarded as one of the foremost contemporary fiction writers in English, Anthony Burgess began his long and prolific literary career while living in Malaya during the late 1950s. In 1949 he had...
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Widely regarded as one of the foremost contemporary fiction writers in English, Anthony Burgess began his long and prolific literary career while living in Malaya during the late 1950s. In 1949 he had...
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The death of Anthony Burgess in 1993 brought an end to the career of one of the most prolific contemporary writers. Burgess was asked so frequently about his productivity that he eventually developed ...
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(This entry was updated by Geoffrey Aggeler (University of Utah) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 3-35.)The literary career of John Anthony Burgess...
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Mitchell is an English novelist, playwright, and critic. In the following positive review, he lauds A Clockwork Orange as a brilliant mixture of horror and farce, calling Burgess's use of langu...
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In the following essay, Connelly argues that the untruncated version of A Clockwork Orange is a story of "life's movement, of growing up and of renewal."
Some ten years after its ...
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McCracken is an American critic and educator. In the following essay, he argues against interpreting A Clockwork Orange as a didactic novel concerning free will, taking issue specifically with Burgess...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1976, Petix discusses the philosophical underpinnings of Burgess's fiction and examines the ways in which they are manifested in A Clockwork Oran...
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In the following essay, Carson argues that pronoun usage in A Clockwork Orange is indicative of the power relationships between Alex and the other characters.
What discussion there has been of the lan...
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Rabinovitz is an American critic and educator. In the following essay, he argues that the twenty-first chapter of A Clockwork Orange reveals a thematic synthesis of free will and determinism.
In his m...
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In the following essay, Rabinovitz comments on Burgess's presentation in A Clockwork Orange of the notion of "social history as a cyclical alternation" of diametrically opposed vi...
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In the following essay, Ray argues that the structure of A Clockwork Orange reflects the theme of inevitable human growth.
Most interpreters of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange have tended t...
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In the following essay, Bowie compares the thematic treatment of freedom and beauty in A Clockwork Orange and in works by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
In 1961 Anthony Burgess interrupted his work on A Clockwork...
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In the following essay, which appeared as an introduction to the first publication of the last chapter of A Clockwork Orange in America, Burgess discusses the publication history of the twenty-first c...
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In the following essay, which takes the form of an interview conducted by Burgess with Alex, the main character of A Clockwork Orange, Burgess examines Alex's personality by having him critique...
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Hyman was an American critic and educator, long associated with the New Yorker magazine. In the following positive review, he praises Burgess as a satirist and calls A Clockwork Orange "an eloq...
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Barricelli is an American fiction writer, critic, and educator. In the following excerpt, he argues that the use of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in A Clockwork Orange is arbitrary and inappropria...
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Stinson is an educator and critic specializing in modern British literature who has spent many years studying the work of Burgess. In the following excerpt, he discusses themes and stylistic aspects o...
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In the following essay, Hutchings discusses the stage adaptations of A Clockwork Orange, focusing on the two written by Burgess.
Since its publication in 1962, A Clockwork Orange has remained Anthony ...
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In the following excerpt, Madden discusses elements of misogyny in A Clockwork Orange.
The future society of A Clockwork Orange is a violent world in which the weak are at the mercy of the strong. Lik...
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Pritchard is an American critic and educator. In the following excerpt, he discusses the effect of Burgess's invented language, "nadsat," on the violent content of A Clockwork Ora...
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Morris is an American critic, educator, and biographer. In the following excerpt, he compares the structure and philosophic themes of Burgess's dystopian novels, A Clockwork Orange and The Want...
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Evans is an American critic and educator. In the following essay, he discusses the use of the "nadsat" slang in A Clockwork Orange, and its effect upon the novel as a dystopian vision.
T...
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DeVitis is an American critic and educator. In the following excerpt, he interprets A Clockwork Orange as a black comedy which illustrates the "horror of life without choice."
In a chapt...
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In the following essay, Burgess discusses the violence in A Clockwork Orange and reacts to criticism that both the novel and Stanley Kubrick's 1972 film version of it are gratuitous in their de...
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In the following excerpt, Burgess discusses the novel and film versions of A Clockwork Orange.
Anthony Burgess is one of England's most talented, scholarly and entertaining contemporary writers...
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In the following essay, Cullinan discusses the effect of the final, twenty-first, chapter of A Clockwork Orange, which was left out of the original American editions.
American readers of A Clockwork O...
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Critical Essay by Robert Martin Adams
[Like] Joyce, and like no other novelist in English, Burgess is fond of using language harmonically or impressionistically, and not just in nostalgic moods—...
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An exploration of how Anthony Burgess uses style, structure and language to reveal the characteristics of the protagonist, Alex, in "A Clockwork Orange."
I was first attracted to "A Clockwork Orang...
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There are many minor characters in A Clockwork Orange that the author Anthony Burgess has included. There are a few that have barely any significance to neither Alex nor the plot itself; however, some...
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Karma is a major aspect of the Hindu religion. It is primarily based on the idea that "what ever goes around comes around", perhaps the most over used cliché known to human kind. The irony in thi...
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It is a part of human nature to retain order and control, preventing one's existence from disarray. The concept of power is a cyclical one as its impact increases over time until a peak
and, if misus...
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I was first attracted to "A Clockwork Orange" when it was featured as one of the "top 100 films of all-time" in a magazine. I subsequently expressed a desire to read the novel but was advised against ...
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Although A Clockwork Orange promotes violence, sex and other adult themes is somewhat true, I think boys at the age of fifteen and sixteen are ready to be exposed to the issues they may face in the re...
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Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
