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.

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) ()	
 A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992) ()
 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)

Reference

Vanjske veze 	

 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: 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

Engleski pisci
Engleski pjesnici
Pisci znanstvene fantastike
Autobiografi
Engleski putopisci
Engleski scenaristi
Engleski novinari
Britanski esejisti
Britanski književni kritičari
Britanski publicisti
Engleski kompozitori
Spikeri
Biografije, Manchester
Umrli od raka