Anthony Burgess and France

Anthony Burgess and France
Author: Marc Jeannin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1443891517

Celebrating the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth, this book reveals the true relation that the British author had with France. It brings together a collection of papers by a selected group of academics who explore the sizeable French literary and musical heritage that inspired Burgess in his creations and adaptations. It shows that the portrait of Anthony Burgess would be incomplete if the importance and influence of French literary and musical works on his career are not considered. Adopting a multifaceted approach, the book includes numerous in-depth analyses of Anthony Burgess’s works in reference to famous French writers, such as Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Lévi-Strauss, Molière, and Rostand, and French composers, including Berlioz, Bizet, Boulez, Debussy, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns. These artists, indeed French culture in general, left a profound and indelible mark on Anthony Burgess.

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess
Author: Marc Jeannin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Music and literature
ISBN: 9781443811163

This book, taking an interdisciplinary approach, proposes a new insight into the relationship between literature and music through the prism of Anthony Burgessâ (TM)s works and those of his spiritual fathers, be they writers or composers. Exploring this relationship not only helps us to appreciate the complex mechanisms of certain artistic creations, but also demonstrates the parallels between these two major modes of artistic expression as well as showing the limits of trying to superimpose them. A selected panel of brilliant international scholars tackles the challenge of examining this relationship by providing original explanatory comments on the musicality of literature and the literary aspects of music. The book includes many pertinent references to a variety of artists ranging from musicians such as Mozart, Beethoven and Debussy to authors such as Joyce, Eliot and Huxley. Finally, it offers, through a wide spectrum of analyses, enrichment to scholars, students and general readers of the works of Burgess and of others in which literary and musical domains meet.

Earthly Powers

Earthly Powers
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781609450847

At the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.

The Wanting Seed

The Wanting Seed
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393285723

Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.

Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements

Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393350169

Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write. A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed—in liberty, equality, and fraternity—from Beethoven’s Third “Eroica” Symphony, in this rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony Burgess has pulled out all the stops for a virtuoso performance that is literary, historical, and musical.

A Mouthful of Air

A Mouthful of Air
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1992
Genre: English language
ISBN:

Bundel essays over linguïstiek en fonologie, voornamelijk van het Engels.

One Man's Chorus

One Man's Chorus
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1999-11-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780786706990

In a collection of nonfiction writings, the British novelist addresses his childhood, his experiences in Malaysia and Monaco, his own work and its critics, and the work of his contemporaries

The Long Day Wanes

The Long Day Wanes
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393309430

Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward. A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.

99 Novels

99 Novels
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: New York : Summit Books
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess

The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess
Author: Jim Clarke
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2017-10-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319664115

The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess's fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of the twentieth century's most innovative authors. This book explores Burgess's dazzlingly diverse range of novels through the one key theme which links them all – the artistic process itself. Borrowing from Nietzsche's aesthetic dichotomy of Apollo and Dionysus, the book uncovers the protracted evolution of Burgess's fiction and offers a unifying theory which links his early postcolonial fiction chronologically, via his modernist experiments like A Clockwork Orange and Nothing Like The Sun, to his late classics Mozart and the Wolfgang and A Dead Man in Deptford. This volume clarifies Burgess's seminal role as both late modernist and early postmodernist, and lucidly unveils the legacy of England's most mercurial novelist.