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...ANTHONY BURGESS would be pleased to find out that his latest book can be compared to the work of T.S. Eliot. In fact he would probably urinate in his elitist tweeds to know that his new book is like The Waste Land. The comparison, however, is not between the final products but between the origins of the two works: both were written by men close to--if not over--the brink. However, while Eliot's masterpiece was what the poet called "rhythmical grumbling." Burgess's piece of trash car only be described as infantile whining...
...Clockwork Testament is actually a personal gripe about Burgess's experiences in America and about the him adapted from his novel. A Clockwork Orange. Plot in this case is better described as gross misinterpretation of the facts; characterization, as a loose form of character assassination. It should all begin with the dawning of Enderby's last day on his own godforsaken planet, but in fact the novel begins with some revealing articles published two years ago in London's Times Literary Supplement. During 1972-73 Burgess was a "writer-academic" teaching Elizabethan drama and creative writing at New York...
...following June 22 the plot thickened, when in another TLS article. Burgess again attacked American culture in the same mundane cliches. This time around he related some of the incidents that appear in The Clockwork Testament. In an example of his thesis that for young creative writers "language and style are irrelevant in the face of the great god Message." Burgess speaks of his black students presenting him with "bitter though illiterate white-castration fantasies." He also relates an incident of irreverence for authority...
...writers in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow discuss what could happen to science Fiction in the future. James Gunn, in his well-documented essay, traces the development of modern science fiction and its recent public acceptance. Gunn sees a danger for pure science fiction as mainstream writers like Anthony Burgess. Herman work and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. turn to the themes and concepts" of science fiction. To Gunn, such writers represent a literary culture that is hostile to science fiction with its rational, pragmatic view of the universe. The New Wave of science fiction writers, led by Judith Merril...
...some business talents as well as literary ones." He joined Simon & Schuster in 1955, left to become editor-in-chief at Knopf in 1968. Convinced that good writing sells, Gottlieb has won a devoted following of top authors. Among those he personally edits are John Cheever, Doris Lessing, Anthony Burgess, John le Carre, Jessica Mitford...