Anthony Burgess Summary

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.... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

(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... Read more

Critical Essay by Jean E. Kennard [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: "Th... Read more

Critical Essay by Geoffrey Aggeler In Burgess's view, the liberal's optimism, his belief in the fundamental goodness and perfectability of man, derives from an ancient heresy—the... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Lukacs Anthony Burgess' Ernest Hemingway and His World is trying to be an attractive (there are over a hundred photographs) summary of Hemingway's life. Yet there... Read more

Critical Essay by D. J. Enright A book by Anthony Burgess, fictional or otherwise (and ABBA ABBA is both), is likely to be tricky—and harsh almost to desperation, moving and funny. Also, at ti... Read more

Critical Essay by John W. Tilton [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 ... Read more

Critical Essay by George Steiner The Burgess bibliography lists twenty-one novels. (There are rumors of esoterica under a pen name.) "The Long Day Wanes," an autobiographical trilogy se... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Mathews The metaphor of the clockwork universe provides a useful touchstone for considering [some of Burgess's novels] …, and it is a motif extended and develo... Read more

Critical Essay by Pearl K. Bell [Anthony Burgess's] twenty-odd volumes of fiction range over vast immensities of time and space, and are full of flashy erudition and restless experiments with ... Read more