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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