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Seriocomic novels of noted British writer and critic
Anthony Burgess
, pen name of
John Burgess Wilson
, include the futuristic classic
A Clockwork Orange
(1962).
He composed also a librettos, poems, plays, screens, and essays and traveled, broadcast, translated, linguist and educationalist. He lived for long periods in southeastern Asia, the United States of America, and Europe along Mediterranean Sea as well as England. His fiction embraces the Malayan trilogy (
The Long Day Wanes
) on the dying days of empire in the east. The
Enderby
quartet concerns a poet and his muse.
Nothing like the Sun
re-creates love life of
William Shakespeare
. He explores the nature of evil with
Earthly Powers
, a panoramic saga of the 20th century. He published studies of
James Joyce
,
Ernest Miller Hemingway
, Shakespeare, and
David Herbert Lawrence
. He produced the treatises
Language Made Plain
and
A Mouthful of Air
. His journalism proliferated in several languages. He translated and adapted
Cyrano de Bergerac
,
Oedipus the King
, and
Carmen
for the stage. He scripted
Jesus of Nazareth
and
Moses the Lawgiver
for the screen. He invented the prehistoric language, spoken in
Quest for Fire
. He composed the
Sinfoni Melayu
, the
Symphony (No. 3) in C
, and the opera
Blooms of Dublin
.
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