Anthony Burgess

'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. Through Crabbe's rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters, Burgess lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence.

The playground of Mr. Burgess' humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face of England hardened into a standardized grimace. He is appalled by his observations in all quarters of cheapness, shallowness, vice. He is appalled also by monotony. But monotony reigns only briefly. Soon Everett, the broken-down poet, and Winterbottom, the printer, have involved him in affairs which put a strain on his holiday spirit. And with the appearance of Mr. Raj, Ceylonese gentleman, persistent lecher and unflagging sociologist, speed quickens and control diminishes as Denham is carried helpless down the homestretch of his grueling comic course. Mr. Burgess' humor stems from the depth of life rather than from its surface. His people are so vividly alive, and the anger, laughter and melodrama of their experiences so affecting that their story takes on dimension rare in novels so thoroughly entertaining.

One Hand Clapping is the story of Janet and Howard Shirley, living a dreary life in the dreary fictional northern city of Bradcaster. Howard works at the local garage and Janet works in the local supermarket, and they spend their evenings having dinner in front of the television. Their lives begin to change when Howard's photographic memory wins them a gameshow fortune. Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much. She is quite happy with the routine of their ordinary life, improved as it is by consumer goods and modern household conveniences. But once Howard unleashes his unusual brain on the world, the used-car salesman can't seem to stop; and what he sees as the logical conclusion to their success isn't something Janet can agree to. Anthony Burgess's darkly comic satire of 1960s consumerism explores themes of the importance or otherwise of culture and education and the growing influence of America, and taps into contemporary anxieties about the future.

PROVOKATSIJNIJ ROMAN PRO VIBIR, KONTROL I SVOBODU. Serija khudozhnoji literaturi "KULTREAD". V 1971 rotsi za romanom Stenli Kubrik znjav film, jakij stav odnim z najskandalnishikh v istoriji kino ta buv zaboronenim u dekilkokh krajinakh. U sviti dalekogo majbutnogo pidlitki shukajut sens zhittja u nasilstvi, a dorosli - u kontroli za bud-jaku tsinu. Simvolom buntu staje zhorstokij, kharizmatichnij, zukhvalij Aleks - khlopets, jakij obozhnjuje klasichnu muziku, moloko z narkotikami i nichni rejdi zi svojeju bandoju. Vin ne znaje zhalju, bo dlja nogo spravzhnja vlada - tse agresija. Ale derzhava virishuje "vipraviti" jogo. Likuvannja obitsjaje pozbaviti Aleksa skhilnosti do nasilstva - raz i nazavzhdi.

"Zavodnoj apelsin" - literaturnyj paradoks XX stoletija. Prodol-zhaja futuristicheskie traditsii v literature, eksperimentiruja s jazykom, na kotorom govorit rubezhnoe pokolenie malltshipalltshikov i kisok "nadsatykh", Entoni Bjordzhess sozdaet roman, priznannyj klassikoj sovremennoj literatury. Umnyj, zhestokij, kharizmatichnyj antigeroj Aleks, lider ulichnoj bandy, propoveduja nasilie kak vysokoe iskusstvo zhizni, kak rod naslazhdenija, popadaet v zheleznye tiski novejshej gosudarstvennoj programmy po perevospitaniju prestupnikov i sam stanovitsja zhertvoj nasi-lija. Mozhno li spasti mir ot zla, lishaja cheloveka voli sovershat pos-tupki i prevraschaja ego v "zavodnoj apelsin"? Etot vopros segodnja aktualen tak zhe, kak i vchera, i vopros etot avtor zadaet chitatelju.

"Zavodnoj apelsin" - literaturnyj paradoks XX stoletija. Prodol-zhaja futuristicheskie traditsii v literature, eksperimentiruja s jazykom, na kotorom govorit rubezhnoe pokolenie malltshipalltshikov i kisok "nadsatykh", Entoni Bjordzhess sozdaet roman, priznannyj klassikoj sovremennoj literatury. Umnyj, zhestokij, kharizmatichnyj antigeroj Aleks, lider ulichnoj bandy, propoveduja nasilie kak vysokoe iskusstvo zhizni, kak rod naslazhdenija, popadaet v zheleznye tiski novejshej gosudarstvennoj programmy po perevospitaniju prestupnikov i sam stanovitsja zhertvoj nasi-lija. Mozhno li spasti mir ot zla, lishaja cheloveka voli sovershat pos-tupki i prevraschaja ego v "zavodnoj apelsin"? Etot vopros segodnja aktualen tak zhe, kak i vchera, i vopros etot avtor zadaet chitatelju.

V 1977 godu Entoni Bjordzhess napisal stsenarij dlja mini-seriala Franko Dzeffirelli "Iisus iz Nazareta" - masshtabnoj i ambitsioznoj popytki pokazat ves zhiznennyj put Iisusa Khrista. Serial udostoilsja neskolkikh nominatsij na premii BAFTA i "Emmi". Dva goda spustja Bjordzhess pererabotal stsenarij v polnotsennyj roman. Na ego stranitsakh znakomaja po Novomu Zavetu istorija ozhivaet, i chitatel perenositsja v drevnjuju Iudeju, gde biblejskie personazhi prevraschajutsja v obychnykh ljudej s ponjatnymi nam radostjami i gorestjami, problemami i mechtami.

The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgess's writings about music. In this extensive compilation of essays and reviews, he covers a vast range of musical topics, from the hurdy-gurdy to Beatlemania and the Sex Pistols, with Burgess's love of English music represented by writings on Elgar, Holst, and Delius. There are essays on Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner and other great composers from Monteverdi to Weill, as well as writings about Burgess's favourite performers, including Yehudi Menuhin, Larry Adler and John Sebastian. Whether whimsical ('Food and Music'), satirical ('Anybody Can Conduct') or controversial ('Why Punk Had to End in Evil'), Burgess's writing is consistently informative and entertaining. The music of Debussy sparked Burgess's musical imagination so powerfully when he was a boy in Manchester that he composed his first symphony at eighteen years of age and aspired to a career as a professional composer until his mid-thirties. Writings about his own music provides valuable information about many of Burgess's compositions, including his Symphony in C, his works for guitar quartet, and his opera Blooms of Dublin based on Joyce's Ulysses. Carcanet also publishes The Ink Trade, a companion volume of literary essays.

"Zavodnoj apelsin" - literaturnyj paradoks KHKh stoletija. Umnyj, zhestokij, kharizmatichnyj antigeroj Aleks, lider ulichnoj bandy, propoveduja nasilie kak vysokoe iskusstvo zhizni, kak rod naslazhdenija, popadaet v zheleznye tiski novejshej...

How hard is it to reform the Christian church? It is very hard, and there are great difficulties to overcoming in seeing God bless such a work. This is obviously the work of God's Spirit. But how hard is it to take the people of God towards a progression of biblical Reformation? The answer is that there are many difficulties to hurdle, but there are encouragements to doing this for the glory of Jesus Christ. This is the substance of this very important work of reforming the church. McMahon first sets up this work by explaining the ideas of Theological Traditionalism, subscriptionism, confessionalism, reformation and the counter "me and my bible" movement. He shows how the illumination of the Spirit works, dealing with 1 John 2:26-27, and in conjunction with Theological Traditionalism. He shows how these are wed to confessionalism towards reformation, and how it completely overthrows contrary claims, including demonstrating how one ought to properly subscribe to the truth. Then, he links these together to form a progression towards godly reformation and holiness. After this, Anthony Burgess, a master exegete, teaches from Mark 1:2-3, "As it is written in the Prophets, Behold I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make thy paths straight." He answers questions like, are we reformed enough? Is God content for us to be sanctified just enough? What can church members and pastors do to promote true biblical reform in their congregations? What difficulties will we see, and what encouragements can we find along the way if we are holding to the truth?