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Page 178
... Burgess was born in 1917 , but he did not turn to novel - writing until he was nearly forty , having spent much of his life composing music and working as an education officer in Malaya . He seems to me to embody the opposition between ...
... Burgess was born in 1917 , but he did not turn to novel - writing until he was nearly forty , having spent much of his life composing music and working as an education officer in Malaya . He seems to me to embody the opposition between ...
Page 183
... Burgess's novel – Alex is engaging . His adventures are often funny , or at least his way of describing them is whereas Amis and Wilson keep comedy and horror on separate planes in their fiction , Burgess , like Waugh , often fuses them ...
... Burgess's novel – Alex is engaging . His adventures are often funny , or at least his way of describing them is whereas Amis and Wilson keep comedy and horror on separate planes in their fiction , Burgess , like Waugh , often fuses them ...
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... Burgess must have drawn effectively on the memoirs of the 1914-18 war - which he was born in the middle of – and as a piece of fictional recreation of history it ranks with comparable passages in Thomas Pynchon's V. - The degree of ...
... Burgess must have drawn effectively on the memoirs of the 1914-18 war - which he was born in the middle of – and as a piece of fictional recreation of history it ranks with comparable passages in Thomas Pynchon's V. - The degree of ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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