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Immer wieder haben Autoren versucht, sich dem Phänomen auch auf literarischen Wegen zu nähern. Zu diesem Kreis zählt der große britische Schriftsteller Anthony Burgess, bei dem man gleich im ersten Kapitel weiß, in wessen kundigen Händen man sich befindet, wenn der Erzähler Asor, ein fiktiver Sprachgelehrter und Geschichtenerzähler des 1. Jahrhunderts, erst einmal detailliert mit falschen Vorstellungen darüber aufräumt, wie damals Kreuzigungen durchgeführt wurden. Im Folgenden hält Asor sich an die aus den Evangelien bekannte Handlung, beginnt mit der Vorgeschichte, der Geburt Johannes des Täufers und der Geburt Jesu im Stall von Bethlehem, erzählt teils apokryphe Begebenheiten aus der Jugend und schildert schließlich Jesu Sendung als religiöser Lehrer (und Heiler) bis zum Tod am Kreuz. Bei alledem ist Asor aber eine Figur ihrer Zeit, die manches skeptisch sieht, was heute selbstverständlich ist, um dann wieder als gegeben anzunehmen, was uns rätselhaft scheint. Ob Jesus nun Gottes Sohn ist oder nicht, maßt er sich nicht an zu beurteilen, aber er ist fasziniert von diesem furchtlosen Mann, der sich so konsequent unbeliebt macht mit seinem Gedanken der Nächstenliebe.

Exploring the complexities of music and its impact, this book presents a unique tribute to Mozart, blending celestial dialogues with fictional elements. Set against a backdrop of modern conflict, it features multiple personas engaging in discussions that aim to uncover the essence of music. Through a creative mix of narrative forms, including an opera libretto and film script fragments, the author delves into the bewildering yet comforting nature of Mozart's work, ultimately seeking to illuminate the profound questions surrounding music's meaning.

In der zweiten Hälfte der 1950er Jahre, als die Unabhängigkeit von der britischen Kolonialmacht näher rückt, beginnt der britische Lehrer Victor Crabbe im Bundesstaat Dahaga als Schuldirektor. Seine Ehe mit Fenella ist durch eine frühere Affäre mit einer Malaiin gefährdet, und als er sich mit der Frau seines Vorgesetzten einlässt, wird die Situation noch komplizierter. Fenella zieht zudem das Interesse des örtlichen Potentaten auf sich. Crabbe sieht sich schließlich der Anschuldigung ausgesetzt, mit Kommunisten zu sympathisieren, während er selbst nicht erkennt, wie tief er in die Verwicklungen verwickelt ist. In diesem Teil der Trilogie beleuchtet Anthony Burgess die Religionen Malaysias sowie die Interaktionen der verschiedenen Bevölkerungsgruppen, die sich in der Endphase der Kolonialzeit vereinen, vor allem in ihrer Abneigung gegen die abziehende Kolonialmacht. Neben Crabbe treten auch skurrile Figuren wie der erfolglose Anwalt Hardman auf, der vom Katholizismus zum Islam konvertiert, um eine wohlhabende malaiische Witwe zu heiraten. Burgess schafft ein eindringliches und bitter-amüsantes Bild eines ethnisch, religiös und sprachlich vielfältigen Landes in einer einzigartigen Umbruchsituation.

Der 1959 erstmals veröffentlichte Roman „Betten im Orient“ (der Titel spielt auf Shakespeares Drama „Antonius und Kleopatra“ an) ist das großartige Finale der berühmten Malaya-Trilogie, in der sich Anthony Burgess mit dem Ende der britischen Kolonialzeit in Malaya auseinandersetzt. Zentralfigur und Antiheld ist auch in diesem Roman der Brite Victor Crabbe. Vom Lehrer zum Direktor und nun zum Leiter der staatlichen Schulbehörde befördert, aber von seiner Frau verlassen, stemmt Crabbe sich weiter dem Strudel der Konflikte zwischen den unterschiedlichen Bevölkerungsgruppen entgegen. Eine Party, die Crabbe in diesem Bestreben veranstaltet, endet im Chaos, und zwischen Tamilen und Malaien fließt Blut, aber ein junger Komponist chinesischer Abstammung scheint das Zeug zu haben, das Land zumindest musikalisch zu einen. In Crabbe findet er einen beharrlichen Förderer, doch dann wird Crabbe von seiner eigenen Geschichte eingeholt. Und der junge Komponist begegnet seiner Muse. Auf seine unnachahmliche Weise – mit Wortwitz, Situationskomik, lite­rarischen und musikalischen Anspielungen und hintergründigem Humor – schildert Burgess in der Trilogie einen historisch einzigartigen Moment in der Schlussphase des britischen Empire. Selbst in musikalischer Komposition geschult, führt Burgess in „Betten im Orient“ die in den beiden Vorgängerromanen entwickelten Motivstränge zu einem kunstvollen Abschluss. (Bd. 3 der Trilogie)

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252 pages. First printing of the Ballantine pocket-size paperback. U5037.

Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter.

Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita. But whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex film on a TV chat show, or writing a hit musical based on the life and work of Shakespeare, Enderby emerges triumphant.

The great diversity of Spain is captured here in a series of breathtaking photographs accompanying a century of travel writing from the pages of the New York Times.

Земная жизнь Иисуса Христа, увиденная глазами человека двадцатого века. Автору удалось создать свои, совершенно неповторимые образы Христа, Иосифа, Марии, Иоанна Крестителя. В романе действуют многочисленные исторические персонажи, широко представлены детали быта Иудеи двухтысячелетней давности, и в то же время - это роман о сегодняшнем дне, о неизменных с момента сотворения мира человеческих страстях, о непостижимом во все времена Божием Промысле.

Un escritor sexagenario atraviesa un bache creativo que termina conduciéndole a una crisis personal. A lo largo de su vida, su principal forma de encontrar la escritura creativa ha sido sentado en la tapa del inodoro. Ahora, no obstante, ni siquiera ese excéntrico método da resultados. Presentación de un personaje que dará origen a un ciclo, y a la vez obra antónima en sí misma, Enderby por dentro traza el soberbio retrato irónico de un poeta retirado en una población costera del sur de Inglaterra, en un mundo extravagante, disparatado y sórdido, que se muestra con inventiva y sarcástica lucidez. Enderby atrapado en las redes del matrimonio, cepillado y manicurado, vivirá una pavorosa luna de miel de alcoholismo y disputas teológicas en Roma, de la que surgirá la mencionada crisis final de sequedad creadora.

In a collection of nonfiction writings, the British novelist addresses his childhood, his experiences in Malaysia and Monaco, his own work and its critics, and the work of his contemporaries.

This is one in a series of "Penguin 60s" biography titles.

This collection of essays sheds light on one of the finest literary talents of the 20th century. fifty-seven excerpts of interviews, personal impressions, diary entries, articles, essays, and literary pieces reveal the private life of Greene--opinionated, charming, articulate, controversial.

A bumper volume of the best poems by a hugely funny and quotable writer.

Seit der Veröffentlichung von Ulysses nimmt James Joyce einen einzigartigen Platz in der Literatur des Jahrhunderts ein. Kühn und kompromisslos öffnete er der Sprache und literarischen Schöpfung eine neue Dimension. Künstler, Fotografen und Bildhauer schufen Bilder von Joyce, seiner Familie und seinen Kollegen, was die Faszination für Joyce und seinen ungebrochenen Einfluss bis in die Gegenwart dokumentiert. Viele der gezeigten Werke stammen von bekannten Künstlern wie Man Ray, Berenice Abbott und Matisse, während andere weniger bekannt sind. Diese 90 Bilder bilden die umfassendste Sammlung von Joyce-Porträts, die je für ein einzelnes Buch zusammengestellt wurde. Man fragt sich, wie Joyce auf einen solchen Band reagiert hätte. Vielleicht hätte er in der Stimmung geschrieben, in der er einem Maler nach einer Sitzung lobte, dass dessen Zeichnung das einzige sei, worüber man sich nicht streiten könne. Doch auch Joyce erkannte seine Grenzen, als er einem Künstler gestand, dass er Bilder mochte, aber die Nägel an den Wänden für ihn ausreichend seien. Die Einführung stammt von Anthony Burgess, einem Fürsprecher von Joyces Werk, der kurz nach Fertigstellung seines Textes starb. Bob Cato, ein preisgekrönter Buchgestalter, war auch als Bildhauer, Maler und Collagist tätig.

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn' Irish Times A Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England.

The decadence and violence of the urban streets is graphically portrayed in this novel set in a post-WWII Brooklyn slum.

A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward.

W.B. Yeats wrote of a poem that he "made it out of a mouthful of air". All literature and indeed language, Burgess argues, is made this way - an oral rather than a visual medium. Burgess goes on to present a survey of the history, development and cross-fertilization of languages.

"James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is one of the twentieth century's great coming-of-age novels. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's acclaimed text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes. John Paul Riquelme provides explanatory notes to deepen the reader's appreciation for Joyce's masterpiece." ""Backgrounds and Contexts" is topically organized: "Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798-1916," "The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival," "Religion," and "Aesthetic Backgrounds." Fourteen illustrations accompany the documents." ""Criticism" begins with John Paul Riquelme's overview of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man's structure. Twelve diverse interpretations of his work follow, by Kenneth Burke, Umberto Eco, Hugh Kenner, Helene Cixous, John Paul Riquelme, Karen Lawrence, Maud Ellmann, Bonnie Kime Scott, Joseph Valente, Marian Eide, Pericles Lewis, adn Jonathan Mulrooney. A Selected Bibliography is also included."--BOOK JACKET.

Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night.

Second and final volume of the autobiography of Anthony Burgess. The narrative begins in 1959, with the author's return from Brunei and the start of a professional writing career. It ends in 1982 with the centenary celebrations of James Joyce's birth. The author also wrote "Earthly Powers".

Contents: - A Meeting in Valladolid - The Most Beautiful - The Cavalier of The Rose - 1889 and The Devils's Mode - Wine of The Country - Snow - The Endless Voyager - Hun - Murder To Music

In a sweeping historical novel moving from the sinking of the "Titanic" to World War II and the birth of Israel, two families--one Welsh and one Irish--are bound together by love, friendship, and an ancient myth

Auric Goldfinger: cruel, clever, frustratingly careful, is a cheat at Canasta and a crook on a massive scale in everyday life. The sort of man James Bond hates. So it's fortunate that Bond is the man charged by both the Bank of England and MI5 to discover what this, the richest man in the country intends to do with his ill-gotten gains.

It is customary to preface an autobiography with an apology, but in today's world, such a gesture seems unnecessary. We live in an age where standards of decent conduct are under threat, with daily reports of violence, divorce, and arson. Young girls smoke cigarettes and, reportedly, cigars; mature women don one-piece bathing costumes, and married men often prefer cinema to traditional values. In light of this, it becomes essential to present a higher example to society. At forty-seven, I have felt this urgency growing stronger. When my wife, her four sisters, and the vicar of my parish, Reverend Simeon Whey, urged me to share my experiences, I realized that delaying this task would be a moral failing. While many may dismiss the concept of sin, I firmly oppose it and have consistently rebuked it in others while striving to avoid it myself. Therefore, I feel it is my duty to share this volume, not only as a reflection of my beliefs but as a call to uphold higher standards in a time when they are sorely needed.

Der sterbende Freud flieht aus Wien ins Exil. Ein Broadway-Musical über Trotsky in New York. Die letzten Züge des Planeten Erde im Jahr 2000. Dies sind alles Themen in "The End of the World News". Psychoanalyse, internationaler Sozialismus und das Ende - drei Themen, drei Geschichten - outrageously contrapunktiert zu einer Dreifaltigkeit, in einem Roman voller verbaler Pyrotechnik, erstaunlicher Fantasiekunststücke und verführerischer Witze, gekrönt von einem brillanten, unerwarteten, überirdischen Finale - alles geschrieben von einem Romanautor auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Kräfte.

These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; Little Wilson and Big God moves from Moss Side to Malaya recalling Burgess's time as an education officer in the tropics, his tempestuous first marriage, his struggles with Catholicism and the beginning of his prolific writing life.

Following the death of her father, an irregularly employed pianist, Ellen Henshaw becomes a high-class prostitute in Paris during the 1930s and then founds a chain of schools to instruct men in the arts of love and music

Dr. Edwin Spindrift has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than to people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. When he escapes from the hospital the night before his surgery, things and people he hardly knew existed swoop down on him as he careens through an adventurous night in London. "Fine, sly, rich comedy. . . ." (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) by the author of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

F.X. Enderby travels to Indiana in order to impress the Hoosiers with his musical script on the career of Shakespeare and falls in love with a nightclub singer.

Traces the life of the English author, D.H. Lawrence, and examines the development of his fiction and poetry

Nach „CLOCKWORK ORANGE“ präsentiert Anthony Burgess einen neuen intellektuell-zeitkritischen Roman, der die merkwürdige Existenz des Professors Enderby schildert. Er lehrt Literatur an einer New Yorker Universität und betreibt zufällig eine Bar in Tanger, ursprünglich als Mordfall geplant. Enderby ist ein skurriler Vertreter beider Zünfte, der als Realist und Idealist zugleich auftritt. Seine Auffassung von menschlicher Freiheit und der Entscheidung für oder gegen das Böse ist sowohl intellektuell überzogen als auch derb und spöttisch gegenüber bürgerlichen Konventionen. Trotz seiner Feinde, die er genießt, bleibt er ihnen nie aus dem Weg. Der lebendige Geist Enderbys kämpft in einem zunehmend verfallenden Körper – fettsüchtig, kurzsichtig, zahnlos und mit Angina Pectoris. Er hält das Leben fest, obwohl es ihm mit jeder Herzattacke mehr entgleitet. Er nutzt die Freiheit des „So-und-nicht-anders-Sein“ bis zum letzten Moment und hinterlässt sein Beispiel als Testament für diejenigen, die es verstehen. Der Roman besticht durch sprachliche Eigenwilligkeit, geistreiche Aphorismen, scharfe Ironie und eine derbe Deftigkeit, die ihn einzigartig macht. Diese brillante und bitterböse Satire auf gegenwärtige Trends ist in ihrer gewagten Wortgewalt ohne Vorbild und wird wohl auch ohne Nachfolger bleiben.

A Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity. Sadoc, a dying shipping clerk, sets down for future generations a tale of epic proportions: he is charged with recounting no less an event than the birth of Christianity.

"Manchmal, wenn ich bei der Arbeit bin und auf Kunden warte, denke ich an uns beide, die wie Könige leben und uns nicht um die Zukunft kümmern. Denn es könnte keine Zukunft geben, um die man sich kümmern könnte, weißt du. Nicht für irgendjemanden, eines Tages. Und es ist eine böse Welt." Das durchschnittliche Paar Janet und Howard sieht sich mit dem Zerfall ihres Lebens konfrontiert, als Howards fotografisches Gedächtnis ihm ein Vermögen in einer Spielshow einbringt. Janet möchte nicht, dass sich ihr Leben so sehr verändert. Sie ist ganz zufrieden damit, im Supermarkt zu arbeiten, dreimal am Tag für ihren Mann zu kochen und abends Quizshows zu schauen. Doch als Howard sein fotografisches Gedächtnis auf die Welt loslässt, kann der einst bescheidene Gebrauchtwagenverkäufer nicht aufhören. Und was er als logische Konsequenz seines Erfolgs sieht, ist etwas, dem Janet nicht zustimmen kann.

A London-hotel barman and poet flees to Tangier after murdering a singer and meets a man who knows about his criminal act

Book by Daniel Angeli, Jean-Paul Dousset

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.

Hemingway's great achievement was to free the novel from all the languid decoration and cozy indirectness that was its early twentieth-century inheritance. His terse prose taught the writer to engage life to the fullest in order to write about it, and his own life was the perfect demonstration of that principle. Reissued to coincide with the centenary of Hemingway's birth, Anthony Burgess's insightful biography traces the rapidly changing scene from a happy, complacent childhood to the grim reality of the First World War and the vulgar unreality of the Second; from the Paris of the 1920s to the Spain of Civil War and the excitements of African safari to the somber last years in Cuba. Hemingway was rich and successful from an early age, yet public acclaim and even the Nobel Prize could not disguise the fact that he was a moody, suffering, and sometimes vicious figure--a man who was finally unable to live with his own image.

Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, 1985 combines a devastating critique of Orwell's 1984 with a terrifying vision of the future. As memorable as A Clockwork Orange, it is as powerful and unsettling as anything Burgess has written. First published in 1978, its thoughts and ideas still hold very true today.

First Edition. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket. The book has small bumps to its corners. Rubbing along the bottoms of the covers. The dust jacket has rubs to its spine tips and corners. Light wear to its upper edges.

A fascinating look at life in New York City as told through stories and photographs.

Napoleon the tyrant, lover, general, and doomed hero are woven together in this story of his life from his early military campaigns and courtships to his exile and death on St. Helena.

Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.

Dr. Edwin Spindrift has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than to people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. When he escapes from the hospital the night before his surgery, things and people he hardly knew existed swoop down on him as he careens through an adventurous night in London. "Fine, sly, rich comedy. . . ." (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) by the author of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

This famous trilogy dissects the racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the chaotic upheaval of Independence. Through a succession of wonderfully colourful characters, Anthony Burgess delineates the conflict and confusion arising from the almost enforced mingling of cultures.

Among Shakespear's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespear the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespear and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrical history. Anthony Burgess's well-known delight in language infuses his own writing about Shakespear's works. And in the verve of his biography he conveys the energy of the Elizabethan age.

"There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . . Honey for the Bears is a triumph."―Kingsley Amis, New York Times A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar.

"English Literature, A Survey for Students" by Anthony Burgess is a new edition of the original classic survey, first published in 1958 under the author's pen name J. Burgess Wilson. The text has been thoroughly revised and incorporates the developments in English Literature since the 1950s. Illustrations are included to help place the literature under discussion in its social and intellectual context, and a chronological table places the major developments in English Literature in their historical context. There is also a detailed bibliography of other major critical studies listed both generally and chronologically.The new design makes this an easy-to-use reference book for the student, and a most readable volume for all general readers interested in the path of English Literature.

"My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who wants to know Joyce's work but has been scared off by the professors. The appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke; the profundities are always expressed in good round Dublin terms; Joyce's heroes are humble men."--From the Foreword by Anthony Burgess.

From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation. The Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics. As governments struggle to maintain order in the face of overpopulation and food shortages and homosexuality is glorified in an attempt to further limit family sizes, Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna find themselves facing dire choices. Their world transforms into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger.

Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story. -The New York Times