A Clockwork Orange

1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

1962 novel by Anthony Burgess

Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English. The name comes from the Russian suffix equivalent of -teen as in thirteen (, ). Nadsat was also used in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the book.

fictional character in A Clockwork Orange

song composed by David Bowie performed by David Bowie

soundtrack of A Clockwork Orange