Clockwork Orange

Play with Music

1 vurdering

«'Almost 50 years after Anthony Burgess's 1962 novella of juvenile delinquency, today's 21st-century-post-conscription, post-short-sharp-shock, post-Asbo age seems like prophecy.' Neil Cooper, Herald, 18.10.10»

207,-

Paperback

Sendes innen 21 dager

Om boka Detaljer Om forfatteren Anmeldelser Kunders vurdering Oppdag mer

Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violence, mugging and gang rape. Alex also revels in the music of Beethoven. The Gang communicates in a language which is as complicated as their actions. When a drug-fuelled night of fun ends in murder, Alex is finally busted and banged up. He is given a choice - be brainwashed into good citizenship and set free, or face a lifetime inside. Anthony Burgess's play with music, based on his own provocative 1962 novella of the same name, was first published in 1987. A Clockwork Orange was made into a film classic by Stanley Kubrick in 1971 and was dramatizes by the RSC in 1990.

Kundevurdering:
Forget everything you've ever heard about this being a book about 'ultra-violence', that's too easy and not true the least. Yes, Alex is a violent boy, but a little bit of violence does not a book about violence make! It's really about free will, and whether its better to choose to be bad, than to be forced into to being good. The story takes place in an eerie future dystopia in some unidentified country. Alex, our humble narrator, is a 15 year old boy who spends his evenings stealing, beating people up and raping 'devotchkas'. Then he's betrayed by one of his friends, and is put away for prison time and eventually rehabilitation. Burgess' invented slang 'nadsat' is ingenious, and really adds to the novel. Don't be intimidated if it looks unintelligible, you will get the hang of it in no time! The story is remarkably timeless, and almost prophetic in some ways. When you take that, and then add Burgess' great language and storytelling skills, plus a character that's unlikeable, but ultimately loveable, you have the makings of a book that everyone should read. And by everyone I mean you.

lily

Detaljer

Forlag: Methuen Drama
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 112
ISBN: 9780413735904
Utgivelsesår: 1998
Format: 20 x 12 cm

Om forfatteren

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. His many works include: The Complete Enderby, Tremor of Intent and The Kingdom of the Wicked.

Anmeldelser

«'Almost 50 years after Anthony Burgess's 1962 novella of juvenile delinquency, today's 21st-century-post-conscription, post-short-sharp-shock, post-Asbo age seems like prophecy.' Neil Cooper, Herald, 18.10.10»

Kunders vurdering

lily – 20.06.2005

– Forget everything you've ever heard about this being a book about 'ultra-violence', that's too easy and not true the least. Yes, Alex is a violent boy, but a little bit of violence does not a book about violence make! It's really about free will, and whether its better to choose to be bad, than to be forced into to being good. The story takes place in an eerie future dystopia in some unidentified country. Alex, our humble narrator, is a 15 year old boy who spends his evenings stealing, beating people up and raping 'devotchkas'. Then he's betrayed by one of his friends, and is put away for prison time and eventually rehabilitation. Burgess' invented slang 'nadsat' is ingenious, and really adds to the novel. Don't be intimidated if it looks unintelligible, you will get the hang of it in no time! The story is remarkably timeless, and almost prophetic in some ways. When you take that, and then add Burgess' great language and storytelling skills, plus a character that's unlikeable, but ultimately loveable, you have the makings of a book that everyone should read. And by everyone I mean you.