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...CLOCKWORK ORANGE (184 pp.)-Anthony Burgess-Norton...
...Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker but is really that rare thing in English letters-a philosophical novel. The point may be overlooked because the hero, a teen-age monster, tells all about everything in nadsat, a weird argot that seems to be all his own. Nadsat is neither gibberish nor a Joycean exercise. It serves to put Alex where he belongs-half in and half out of the human race...
...comedy written by Mr. Congreve is, to be sure, a play of tesserae: nostalgic, constant lovers and great, howling boobies follow each other across the stage with disconcerting briskness, like the well-oiled clockwork figures in the bell tower of some provincial Rathaus. But Mr. Chapman, to revert to the first clever and devastating simile, has fitted all the pieces together with skill and patience, and his Love for Love, consequently, has a coherence and a unity that Mr. Congreve's own play, in cold print, does...
...Complete Ronald Firbank. Duchesses, bishops, and clockwork nightingales move languidly among the silver cobwebs of the oddly fascinating world created by this ineffable British fantast...
...Complete Ronald Firbank. Duchesses, bishops, and clockwork nightingales move languidly among the silver cobwebs of the oddly fascinating world created by this ineffable British fantast...