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These views were futuristically dramatized in both Burgess's novel and Stanley Kubrick's version of The Clockwork Orange. In Enderby's End, Burgess pits the poor poet against the whole city of New York, an area where sin, original or otherwise, is surely not in short supply. Enderby reaches the New World in ways faintly congruent with Burgess's recent career. His name appears among the screenplay credits of a shocking film, and thus notorious, he is offered a teaching post at one of Manhattan's melting-pot universities (in 1972 Burgess lectured...
...CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT OR ENDERBY'S END by ANTHONY BURGESS 161 pages. Knopf...
...Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End is an account of Enderby's (no first name) death. But it is also an allegorical satire aimed primarily at a dimly perceived America and especially at Stanley Kubrick's bastardization of A Clockwork Orange. Enderby is a poet who has passed his dubious prime--in writing and in life. He, like Burgess, has been asked to teach for a year at Manhattan U., ostensibly because of the controversy his film script has created in America. The name of the film, of course, is changed: Enderby has adapted Gerard Manley Hopkins's The Wreck...
...style of The Clockwork Testament should be familiar to all those who read A Clockwork Orange fast, sometimes elliptical, with a rich vocabulary and interesting experiments in portmanteau. But sometimes the prose, which includes filmscript-writing and traceries of stream of consciousness, becomes artificially lofty and burdensome. One chapter, a transcript of Enderby's appearance on the late-night Sperr Lansing Show, is a failed satire of the transcriber's inadequacy, with misspellings like ecommunionicle, kwelled, teetotal Aryan, and Alice in Windowland. And the final chapter, some sort of object-lesson conducted from the future by Educational Time Trips...
...Burgess seems to imply, the embodiment of his imagination, then maybe Burgess will stop writing novels. Or perhaps Enderby will undergo some kind of reincarnation and reappear as a literary critic. His first task should then be to denounce the novel of his real-life counterpart, and --if The Clockwork Testament is any indication of Burgess's potential for the future--Enderby should advise Burgess to stop writing altogether