A Clockwork Orange, Critical Edition

Resumen del libro

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviewsEdited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis'It is a horrorshow story ...'Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters.

This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'.Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. From 1954 to 1960 he was stationed in Malaysia as an education officer - during this time he started writing The Malayan Trilogy. Diagnosed with an unoperable brain tumour in 1959, Burgess became a full-time writer and went on to write a book a year up until his death in 1993.

Biografía del autor

Anthony Burgess desarrolló una intensa carrera como educador en Gran Bretaña y Malasia entre 1960 y 1976. Desarrolló su actividad creativa tanto en el campo de la literatura como en el de la música, alcanzando justa fama como compositor. Escribió música de cámara y algunas obras para orquesta, y publicó entre otros libros un ensayo sobre Joyce, una panorámica de la ficción contemporánea y varias novelas: Inside Mr. Enerrby, Nothing like the Sun, The Wanting Seed, Trémula intención y Poderes terrenales. La mayor parte de su obra literaria se sitúa fuera del campo de la ciencia ficción y la literatura fantástica, pero su novela más conocida se inscribe precisamente en este género