Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess (25.2. 1917 – 22.11. 1993.) bio je britanski romanopisac, kritičar i kompozitor. Također je bio aktivan kao libretist, pjesnik, pijanist, dramatičar, scenarist, novinar, esejist, putopisac, spiker, prevodilac, lingvist i edukator.

Anthony Burgess
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	(1917-02-25)25. 2. 1917. Harpurhey, Manchester
Smrt	22. 11. 1993. (dob: 76) St John's Wood, London
Pseudonim	Joseph Kell, John Burgess Wilson
Nacionalnost	britansko
Obrazovanje
Zanimanje	romanopisac, kritičar, kompozitor, libretist, pjesnik, pijanist, dramatičar, scenarist, novinar, esejist, putopisac, spiker, prevoditelj, lingvist, edukator
Opus
1956-1993
Književni pravac	modernizam
Književne vrste	historijski žanr, filozofski roman, satira, epika, špijunski žanr, horor, biografija, književna kritika, putopis, autobiografija
Teme	egzil, kolonijalizam, Islam, vjera, pohota, brak, zlo, alkoholizam, homoseskualnost, lingvistika, pornografija
Inspiracija
Od Homer, Pelagije, Dante, Lawrence, Engleska Biblija, Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson, Hopkins, Conrad, Ford, Joyce, Freud, Orwell, Eliot, Lévi-Strauss, O'Brien
Na Stanley Kubrick, Franco Zeffirelli

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 A Clockwork Orange; i remek-djelo Earthly Powers, panoramsku sagu o 20. vijeku.

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

Izabrana djela

(V. Popis Burgessovih djela za potpuni potpis, uključujući muzička 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)
• A Clockwork Orange (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 veze

Anthony Burgess na Wikimedijinoj ostavi

• International Anthony Burgess Foundation
• The Anthony Burgess Center Arhivirano 2005-04-15 na Wayback Machine-u, at the University of Angers
• Burgess discusses the Kubrick film of his novel A Clockwork Orange in a TV interview Arhivirano 2011-04-17 na Wayback Machine-u
• 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
• Anthony Burgess na sajtu IMDb
• Burgess papers at the University of Texas at Austin: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/burgess.hp.html Arhivirano 2010-06-05 na Wayback Machine-u
• The Paris Review interview Arhivirano 2007-04-24 na Wayback Machine-u
• Second International Anthony Burgess Symposium - "Selves and Others" Arhivirano 2007-05-14 na Wayback Machine-u at Liverpool Hope University