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Anthony Burgess

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Also known as John Anthony Burgess Wilson, John Burgess Wilson, Joseph Kell

English writer and composer (1917–1993)

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Anthony Burgess, born John Anthony Burgess Wilson in Harpurhey, Manchester, was a British writer, journalist, translator, and screenwriter. He served in the British Army and held positions at Princeton University, the University at Buffalo, Columbia University, and the University of Birmingham. Burgess was educated at the Victoria University of Manchester and was a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He wrote under the pseudonym Anthony Burgess, among others, and produced works including *A Clockwork Orange* and *Urgent Copy*.

Burgess received the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. He died of lung cancer, classified as natural causes, in St John's Wood, London, on 22 November 1993. He was buried in Monaco. His writings have been referenced by numerous other encyclopedia articles, and he is associated with tags such as UK, Classical, British, and English.

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Person · Open Library

Born
25 February 1917
Died
22 November 1993
Works
171

Top works

  • The Norton reader -- thirteenth edition
  • Clockwork Orange (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
  • Literature--Twelfth Edition
  • Urgent copy
  • A Clockwork Orange

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Writing · Manchester, England, UK

John Anthony Burgess Wilson (/ˈbɜːrdʒəs/; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. Burgess produced a number of other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television…

Known for

  • Once Upon a Time… A Clockwork Orange — Self (archive footage)2011
  • Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange' — Self (archive footage)2000
  • James Joyce's 'Ulysses' — Self1988
  • The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Self1988
  • Make It New - a portrait of Anthony Burgess — Self1984
  • À propos de 'La guerre du feu' — Self1981
  • Apostrophes — Self1975
  • Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake, with Anthony Burgess — Self1973
  • Le Grand Échiquier — Self1972
  • All My Loving — Self1968

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United Kingdom
Active from
1917
Active to
1993

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,524
Total plays
16,805

Tags

UKClassicalbritishenglish

John Burgess Wilson (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) — who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess — was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess' most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works. It was adapted into a highly controversial 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick; which Burgess says is chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/A

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

    · 2014 · cited 61,883x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,438x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,770x

  4. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

    · 2016 · cited 14,605x

  5. Structure validation in chemical crystallography

    · 2009 · cited 14,176x

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Quotes

  • “Oh, love, love, love — Love on a hilltop high, Love against a cloudless sky, Love where the scene is Painted by a million stars, Love with martinis In the cabarets and bars. Oh, love, love, love...”
  • “Find a cosy table Inside a restaurant, Somewhere formidable Where you’ll be très contents. Let your lady fair know That she is all you see, Prime her with a Pernod Or three. Watch her crack a lobster And strip it to the buff, Rough as when a mobster Gets tough. Keep the wine cascading And you’ll ensure Une petite spécialité called l’amour....”
  • “A heavy task, but there was light relief In the Germanic ambience, boisterous, brash, Torchlit parades and pogroms, guttural grief In emigration queues, the smash and crash Of pawnshop windows by insentient beef In uniform, the gush of beer, the splash Of schnapps, the joy of being drunk and Aryan, Though Hitler was a teetotalitarian. Human pain meant But little in the Gulf War's visual grammar, a Big feast of death to feed the cinecamera”
  • “If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.”
  • “[A] creation of Kubrick....a lesser English novelist until Kubrick came along with that film....the book was more or less forgotten until Kubrick made the film....Thanks to the film [Burgess was] transformed into a personality.”
  • “Though in life Anthony Burgess was amiable, generous and far less self-loving than most writers, I have been disturbed, in the last few years, to read in the press that he did not think himself sufficiently admired by the literary world. It is true, of course, that he had the good fortune not to be hit, as it were, by the Swedes, but surely he was much admired and appreciated by the appreciated and admired.”

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Encyclopedic overview

John Anthony Burgess Wilson (/ˈbɜːrdʒəs/; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English writer and composer.

Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. Burgess produced a number of other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex, and the opera Carmen, among others. Burgess was nominated and shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anthony Burgess” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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