Georges Belmont Boeken

Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, is regarded as one of the most original and daring writers in the English language. His work is illuminated by a dazzling imagination, by a gift for character and plot, by a talent for surprise. In Earthly Powers , Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power — Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career — one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile — their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.

The daring dystopian satire that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully reimagined as part of the Penguin Essentials series 'Every generation should discover this book' Time Out ________________ In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Experiment of language? Social prophecy? Black comedy? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. Dazzling and transgressive, this frightening fable about good and evil asks the meaning of human freedom. ________________ 'A gruesomely witty cautionary tale' Time 'Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language' Daily Telegraph 'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language . . . a very funny book' William S. Burroughs 'One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation' The Times

J'accorde une haute valeur à mes expériences. Je ne sais si je suis arrivé à leur rendre pleinement justice. Tout ce que je puis dire, c'est que je n'ai pas épargné la peine pour que ce récit soit fidèle. Décrire la vérité, telle qu'elle m'est apparue, et de la façon exacte dont je l'ai atteinte, voilà quel a été mon effort incessant. A cet exercice mon esprit a puisé une paix ineffable ; car mon espoir bien-aimé a été que les hésitants retrouveraient ici foi en la Vérité et en l'Ahimsâ. L'uniformité de mon expérience m'a convaincu qu'il n'est d'autre Dieu que la Vérité. Gandhi