Re: Burgess
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:37:56 -0800 (PST)
---Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> wrote:
>
> For me, Anthony Burgess is someone who would have gained greatly
> from Salinger's ploy of ostentatious invisibility.
>
> Before his eventual death the poor man was a great frequenter
> of arts & literary programmes on British television. A pair
> of poached eyes, ribbons of sparse hair combed carefully over
> his bald dome, an over-eager, gabbling rush of volubility - all
left
> an unfortunate impression. He was altogether too anxious to
impress:
> either with his versatility (he claimed to be a composer of
symphonic
> music) or with what sounded like a class swot's parading of
funny words.
>
> In so far as 'less is more', he seemed almost wholly lacking in
a sense
> of personal or literary style.
>
> Scottie B.
I disagree. I do not judge a writers work by his personal appearance.
As for lacking a personal or literary style, I have not come across
one piece of writing that has resembled Burgess's writing. The way he
manipulated the language in A Clockwork Orange is ingenious.
-Liz Friedman
>
>
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