Well it's certainly a great novel. Kubrick mostly adopted bad literature, but three time he took great books (Lolita, Clockwork orange, Eyes wide shut) and failed with all three, especially the last one. He turned Schnitzler's existential story into a pornographic mystery
i just "discovered" this genius and honestly i am surprised whenever i find out about another great artist because i tend to think i already know the best ones but here we go... a new finding!
I reckon its a very personal novel. Especially since Burgess stated it was written in 3 weeks, he must have sourced much of his own real life events in order to write a novel with such pace.
Wow Anthony Burgess was from Manchester?! The society of that day really did dictate your accent. Although I guess he was already of upper middle class status with nought Manc accent.
Yes but regarding the ultra violence from the very young generations there never seemed to me much media detailing such a thing besides A Clockwork Orange because back during the 'Mods and Rockers' days and the two World Wars kids including teenagers for the most part were kept in line more because of societal pressures including strict pressure from schools and familial pressures as there were more two parent homes back then so the running amok of youths back in the day were nothing like what was shown in the A Clockwork Orange novel and film.
That's got nothing to do with it, in fact the opposite, it's do with having our spirits crushed by emotional engineering. Controlled, brainwashed by the media, smartphones and God knows what else. Unable to speak ones mind, to behave in a certain manner.. This is all happening now, I can see your comment is from 9 years ago but it had already started then, but much worse now
The book is written in nadsat a mix of British and Russian slag if you look up the nadsat dictionary on the Internet you will see all the words translated :)
Clockwork Orange is not that interesting to read and Burgess said it was not a very interesting novel. What he resented is that Kubrick called it " Kubrick's Clockwork Orange" and blew it up so that Burgess became more famous due to Kubrick's film, when he wished to become famous for his writing as writing, not as the source of a director's film. Stephen King also disliked what Kubrick made of his novel The Shining. There's a deep sense of misrepresentation. At least Graham Greene got famous for his writing, and several of his novels were turned into good films: but his writing as writing was good. Perhaps Burgess called the film good because a little of its stardust came his way.
Let us begin with this writer who may be a non de plume Anthony B/vicious fifteen year old droog in the central character of this 1963 classic. Where the criminals take over after dark, so to make it easy, another plot only in the dark, what does agent orange or is it clockwork orange have to do? Where a modern day Jekly & Hyde but only at night creatures appear murderers, head hunters, and such...
