Anthony Burgess

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Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess (25. veljače 1917. – 22. studenog 1993.) bio je britanski romanopisac, kritičar i skladatelj. Također je bio aktivan kao libretist, pjesnik, pijanist, dramski pisac, scenarist, novinar, esejist, putopisac, spiker, prevodilac, jezikoslovac i predavatelj.

Rođen je u Harpurhey, blizu Manchestera na sjeverozapadu Engleske, a veliki dio života je proveo u Jugoistočnoj Aziji, SAD i na Mediteranu.

Burgessova proza uključuje tzv. malajsku trilogiju (The Long Day Wanes), o sumraku Britanskog Imperija na Istoku; kvartet romana Enderbyju, samotnom pjesniku i njegovoj muzi; Nothing Like the Sun, klasičnu spekulativnu rekonstrukciju Shakespeareovog ljubavnog života; kultno istraživanje prirod zla Paklena naranča; i remek-djelo Earthly Powers, panoramsku sagu o 20. stoljeću.

Burgess je pisao kritičke studije o Joyceu, Hemingwayu, Shakespeareu i Lawrenceu, traktate o lingvistici Language Made Plain i A Mouthful of Air, te je bio plodan novinar, pišući na nekoliko jezika.

Preveo je i prilagodio Cyrano de Bergerac, Kralj Edip i Carmen za kazalište; napisao scenarije za mini-serije Jesus of Nazareth i Moses the Lawgiver; izmislio prapovijesni jezik koji se govori u filmu Potraga za vatrom; i skladio Sinfoni Melayu, Simfoniju (No. 3) u C-duru i operu Blooms of Dublin.

Izabrana djela

(V. Popis Burgessovih djela za potpuni potpis, uključujući glazbena djela.)

Romani

• Time for a Tiger (1956) (Vol. 1 Malajske trilogije The Long Day Wanes)
• The Enemy in the Blanket (1958) (Vol. 2 trilogije)
• Beds in the East (1959) (Vol. 3. trilogije)
• The Right to an Answer (1960)
• The Doctor is Sick (1960)
• The Worm and the Ring (1960)
• Devil of a State (1961)
• (kao Joseph Kell) One Hand Clapping (1961)
• Paklena naranča (1962)
• The Wanting Seed (1962)
• Honey for the Bears (1963)
• (as Joseph Kell) Inside Mr. Enderby (1963) (Vol. 1 kvarteta Enderby)
• The Eve of St. Venus (1964)
• Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life (1964)
• A Vision of Battlements (1965)
• Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel (1966)
• Enderby Outside (1968) (Vol. 2 kvarteta Enderby)
• M/F (1971)
• Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements (1974)
• The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974) (Vol. 3 kvarteta Enderby)
• Beard's Roman Women (1976)
• Abba Abba (1977)
• 1985 (1978)
• Man of Nazareth (temeljen na scenariju za Jesus of Nazareth) (1979)
• Earthly Powers (1980)
• The End of the World News: An Entertainment (1982)
• Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End of Enderby (1984) (Vol. 4 kvarteta Enderby)
• The Kingdom of the Wicked (1985)
• The Pianoplayers (1986)
• Any Old Iron (1988)
• Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991)
• A Dead Man in Deptford (1993)
• Byrne: A Novel (in verse) (1995)

Poezija

• Moses: A Narrative (1976) (poema)

Priče

• The Devil's Mode and Other Stories (1989) (zbirka)

Publicistika

• Little Wilson and Big God, Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (1986)
• You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (1990)
• Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986), also published as But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop and Other Writings
• One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings, ed. Ben Forkner (1998)
• Shakespeare (1970)
• Language Made Plain (1964) (ISBN 0-8152-0222-9 )
• A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992) (ISBN 0-688-11935-2 )
• Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (1973)
• Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice (1984)
• New York (1976)
• An Essay on Censorship (pismo Salmanu Rushdieju u stihovima) (1989)
• Rencontre au Sommet (razgovori između Burgessa i Isaac Bashevis Singera u književnom obliku) (1998)

Vanjske poveznice

• International Anthony Burgess Foundation
• The Anthony Burgess Center, at the University of Angers
• Burgess discusses the Kubrick film of his novel A Clockwork Orange in a TV interview
• Burgess on popular music (TV documentary): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1396895012402658042&q=anthony+burgess&total=49&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
• Burgess reads from A Clockwork Orange: http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/070494_harp_ITH.html
• The Anthony Burgess collection at the University of Angers
• Burgess papers at the University of Texas at Austin: https://web.archive.org/web/20100605134526/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/burgess.hp.html
• The Paris Review interview
• Second International Anthony Burgess Symposium - "Selves and Others" at Liverpool Hope University