kym 📚🐉randomly remembered how reading "a clockwork orange" in russian translation was a fucking pain because of nadsat slang
Assoc for Scottish Literature“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity”
—author Rodge Glass & the International Anthony Burgess Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/
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Ninety-Nine Novels: Lanark by Alasdair Gray - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. […]
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„What I do I do because I like to do.”
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"There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth."
~ Anthony Burgess, born today, 1917.
Yahooey“The word slang is vague and its etymology obscure. It suggests the slinging of odd stones or dollops of mud at the windows of the stately home of linguistic decorum.” — Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air
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nojaramaHappy anniversary to Stanley Kubrick’s film, ‘A Clockwork Orange’. Released this week in 1972. #aclockworkorange #stanleykubrick #anthonyburgess #malcolmmcdowell
Claire Duvivier"Il ne s'agit pas de croire ou non. Il y a des gens qui ne croient pas à l'existence de I'Amérique ou des constellations lointaines, bien que les lunettes optiques nous confirment l'existence de ces constellations. Que nous y croyions ou non, l'enfer peut être une réalité. Avec nos petites comédies tristes, nous ne sommes que des fourmis en perpétuelle agitation." #AnthonyBurgess #MortADeptford #MastoLivre #LectureFerroviaire #KitMarlowe
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Died this Day:
John Anthony Burgess Wilson 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English writer and composer.
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Died this Day:
John Anthony Burgess Wilson 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English writer and composer.
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“Literature, by the way, may be defined as the aesthetic exploitation of language.” — Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air
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