Word: burgess
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...NOVELS: THE BEST IN ENGLISH SINCE 1939 by Anthony Burgess; Summit; 160 pages; $10.95 ENDERBY'S DARK LADY, OR NO END TO ENDERBY by Anthony Burgess; McGraw-Hill; 160 pages...
This dual publication appears to be as reckless as it is immodest. In 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, Britain's Anthony Burgess sets up a personal pantheon of later 20th century fiction; then, in Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby, he offers the latest sample of his own handiwork in that line...
...disagree violently with some of my choices," writes Burgess in his introduction to 99 Novels, "I shall be pleased." Of course. Why put together such a list unless it is idiosyncratic and provocative? His selections, each defended in a brisk essay of a page or so, include such eyebrow raisers as Erica Jong's How to Save Your Own Life and Ian Fleming's Goldfinger. "It is unwise to disparage the well-made popular," he warns...
This snowballing imprecision has been in progress for almost a decade. Author Anthony Burgess recalls teaching in the U.S. at various times in the 1970s. "American college students have said, 'Like 1984, man,' when asked not to smoke pot in the classroom or advised gently to do a little reading." Now merely mentioning the date can convey muzzy criticism of whatever the speaker happens to dislike: advertising, computers, beeper phones, freeways and domed stadiums...
...Rocky IX. Sylvester Stallone et al. In a 15-round split decision, Rocky regains crown from Burgess Meredith...