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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 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...
Literature that yearns toward the condition of music provides a more promising line of inquiry. Burgess explores lyric verse, the sprung rhythms of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the verbal polyphony of James Joyce. He envisions quasimusical novels built on principles of "structuralism, a liberation from marketplace meanings," and offers two of his own, M/Fand Napoleon Symphony, as exhibits...
...going gets technical at times. Burgess assumes, for example, that most of his readers will recognize the "mystic chord" of Scriabin when they see it on a staff. But he writes with his usual quirky vigor and never loses sight of the quotidian world in which mystic chords get written: glossing one of his own scores, he recalls such details of its composition as "a particular face on television, a stab of heartburn, the cat licking my toes." Those who persist through the occasional thickets of crotchets and quavers will find in this little book the middle C of Anthony...