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 Burgess Wilson was born on February 25, 1917, in...

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 written a fictional account of his wartime...

(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 Wilson began in Malaya, where he served as an...

LITTLE WILSON AND BIG GOD By Anthony Burgess Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 460 pp. $22.50 ANTHONY BURGESS the novelist, who was born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester nearly 70 years ago, has written the first half of his autobiography under the title Little Wilson and...

YOU'VE HAD YOUR TIME The Second Part of the Confessions By Anthony Burgess Grove Weidenfeld, 403 pp., $23.50 Along the New Grub Street some writers run specialty stores, others advertise markdowns and second-hand goods, but no one oversees an establishment...

It is a tragedy becoming too familiar for a country where gun crime is still relatively uncommon and where limits on gun ownership are strict _ an 11-year-old boy shot to death, allegedly by a hooded teenager on a BMX bicycle.Rhys Jones, a cherubic-faced boy...

It’s a good time to be a theater queen—plenty of camp this fall! The Ritz, a Roundabout revival of Terrence McNally’s 1975 comedic romp set in a gay bathhouse, promises to wring every last drop of squeaky sass from actress Rosie Perez, who performs alongside...

[The American edition of A Clockwork Orange] contains no word whatsoever to inform its readers that the last chapter has been deleted…. (p. 21) My analysis of the technical-satiric patterns of the complete novel constitutes a low-keyed argument that the complete novel is superior to the truncated version….

The metaphor of the clockwork universe provides a useful touchstone for considering [some of Burgess's novels] …, and it is a motif extended and developed throughout his work; but Burgess has already beaten clock time as he has transcended national borders through fiction which constantly breaks beyond imposed and conventional thinking. (p. 3) Burgess doesn't "think that the job of literature is to teach us how to behave," but he does "think it can make clearer the ...

[For Anthony Burgess], as for Joyce, "The artist is a Promethean figure who ends by usurping the place of Zeus." Burgess writes in Re Joyce: "The fundamental purpose of any work of art is to impose order on the chaos of life as it comes to us; in imparting a vision of order the artist is doing what the religious teacher also does (this is one of the senses in which truth and beauty are the same thing)." It is not surprising that of twentieth-century fantasy writers Burgess most a...