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La naranja mecánica cuenta la historia del nadsat-adolescente Alex y sus tres drugos-amigos en un mundo de crueldad y destrucción. Alex tiene, según Burgess, ''los principales atributos humanos; amor a la agresion, amor al lenguaje, amor a la belleza. Pero es joven y no ha entendido aun la verdadera importancia de la libertad, la que disfruta de un modo tan violento. En cierto sentido vive en el Eden, y solo cuando cae (como en verdad le ocurre, desde una ventana) parece capaz de llegar a transformase en un verdadero ser humano.'' En 1971 Stanley Kubrick llevo al cine este relato.

Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962 and has been controversial ever since. It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Alex - whose chief preoccupations are Beethoven's Ninth and ultra-violence - as he and his droogs rampage though a dystopian future seeking thrills, until they come under the control of the state's sinister apparatus.

Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, 1985 combines a devastating critique of George Orwell's 1984 with a terrifying vision of the future. As memorable and shocking as A Clockwork Orange, it is also as powerful and unsettling as anything Burgess has written.

Alex e un eroe dei nostri tempi: un teppista sempre pronto a tirar fuori ilcoltello, capo di una banda di duri che ogni sera, sui marciapiedi deisobborghi, ripete il gioco della violenza: rapine, stupri, scassi, assalti ainegozi, scontri con altre bande. Finche Alex, che si interessa solo aBeethoven, viene tradito dai suoi amici durante una delle tante sue imprese.Le terapie di rieducazione, non meno violente, lo ridurranno a un'aranciameccanica, in balia delle sue antiche vittime, in una girandola di situazionigrottesche e paradossali.

John Anthony Burgess Wilson (1917-93) was an industrious writer. He published over fifty books, thousands of essays and numerous drafts and fragments survive. He predicted many of the struggles and challenges of his own and the following century. His most famous book is A Clockwork Orange (1962), later adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick. The linguistic innovations of that novel, the strict formal devices used to contain them, and its range of themes are all to be found too in Burgesss poetry, an area of his work where he was at once most free and most experimental. It is his least exposed and most complex and eloquent area of achievement, now revealed at last in all its richness. His flair for words, formal discipline, experimentalism, and fondness for variousness mark every page.

The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manqué: I make no other pretensions …Anthony BurgessDespite his modest

Tres amics emprenen una misteriosa expedició a la recerca de la terra on creixen els gelats. Muntanyes de pistatxo, un volcà en erupció que escup núvols de crema batuda, un monstre que devora geganti

In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own right. Part two is Burgess' own dystopic vision, written in 1978. He skewers both the present and the future, describing a state where industrial disputes and social unrest compete with overwhelming surveillance, security concerns and the dominance of technology to make life a thing to be suffered rather than lived. Together these two works form a unique guide to one of the twentieth century's most talented, imaginative and prescient writers. Several decades later, Burgess' most singular work still stands.

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.

Adi, irakurle, erne. Artefaktu berezia da esku artean daukazun hau. Azalez ezaguna da, baita izenez ere; haren mamia, aldiz, aski ezezaguna zaigu. Anthony Burgess idazleak eman zuen argitara Ingalaterran lehen aldiz 1962an, eta ondoren, 1971n, Stanley Kubrick zuzendariaren film bertsioarekin batera zabaldu zuen ospea munduan barrena. Apurtzailea izan zen filma estetikoki, soinuz eta irudiz. lde etikotik, bestalde, galdera zorrotz ugari sorrarazi zituen. Alabaina, fokuen argiak itzalpean utzi zituen liburuaren hainbat puntu nagusi; esate baterako, ba al dakigu nondik datorren Laranja mekanikoa izenburua? Alex dugu kontakizun honetako protagonista eta narratzailea. Arratsero biltzen da haren drugu (lagun) Pete, Georgie eta Tentelekin, moloko (esne) plus apur bat hartu, gogoa zorroztu, eta harrapatzen duten ororekin ultraindarkeriaz jokatzeko. Atsegin dute arauak haustea jostaketa hutsez, eta nadsat (nerabe) hizkera berezian mintzo dira. Alexek, gainera, zaletasun berezia du musika klasikoarekin, Ludwig Van (Beethoven) kuttunarekin bereziki. Amets goxoa dena, ordea, amesgaizto bilakatuko zaio une batetik bestera...

La naranja mecánica cuenta la historia del nadsat-adolescente Alex y sus tres drugos-amigos en un mundo de crueldad y destrucción. Alex tiene, según Burgess, 'los principales atributos humanos; amor a la agresion, amor al lenguaje, amor a la belleza. Pero es joven y no ha entendido aun la verdadera importancia de la libertad, la que disfruta de un modo tan violento. En cierto sentido vive en el Eden, y solo cuando cae (como en verdad le ocurre, desde una ventana) parece capaz de llegar a transformase en un verdadero ser humano.' En 1971 Stanley Kubrick llevo al cine este relato. Encuadernacion: Tapa dura con sobrecubierta.