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John Anthony Burgess Wilson foi um escritor, compositor e crítico britânico.

Prolífico e controverso, grande parte da sua obra ainda permanece no anonimato, sendo lembrado principalmente pelo décimo oitavo livro, Laranja Mecânica . Seus livros, críticas e resenhas são marcados por grande sátira social. James Joyce — de quem Burgess era admirador e estudioso — é considerado a mais marcante influência no trabalho de Anthony Burgess.

Burgess cedo ficou órfão de mãe, vítima da gripe espanhola. O pequeno John foi, desde então, criado por uma tia e, mais tarde, pela madrasta. Estudou literatura e língua inglesa na Universidade de Manchester. Foi compositor, serviu por seis anos ao exército inglês na II Guerra Mundial e tornou-se oficial na Ásia e, mais tarde, professor, trabalhando inclusive para o Ministério de Educação na Malásia. Com a luta pela independência da Malásia o deixando desempregado e tendo sido diagnosticado com um doença fatal, Burgess entrou em frenesi literário em 1959, preocupado em deixar sua esposa sem recursos financeiros. A previsão médica estava errada. Ele viveu até 1993, enquanto sua esposa, Llwela Isherwood Jones, morreu de cirrose hepática em 1968. No mesmo ano, Burgess casou-se com Liliana Macellari, uma linguista e tradutora italiana, com quem conviveu até sua morte.

A mais célebre fábula de ficção científica de Anthony Burgess, "Laranja Mecânica", é um libelo pelo livre-arbítrio. Burgess preocupava-se com a ampla utilização do behaviorismo em clínicas, consultórios e prisões. O aumento a delinquência juvenil tanto no Ocidente capitalista quanto na Rússia soviética foi outro catalisador do livro cuja língua, inclusive, é um inglês russificado, de gírias abundantes. O autor retornou ao tema de Laranja Mecânica em Enderby Outside e A Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End , livros que tiveram fria acolhida. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Fevereiro 1917 – 22. Novembro 1993
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Anthony Burgess Frases famosas

“Ria e o mundo rirá com você, ronque e você dormirá sozinho.”

Anthony Burgess

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
Inside Mr. Enderby‎ - Página 43, de Anthony Burgess - Heinemann, 1963 - 252 páginas

“A lealdade de Ernest era difícil de se conquistar e podia desaparecer com enorme facilidade.”

Anthony Burgess

citado em Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/260700/p_086.html, Edição 1 659 - 26/7/2000

“Bondade é que se escolhe. Quando um homem não pode escolher, ele deixa de ser um homem.”

Anthony Burgess livro Laranja Mecânica

A Clockwork Orange

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“A violência sem sentido é uma prerrogativa da juventude, que tem muita energia, mas pouco talento para o construtivo.”

Anthony Burgess

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“O amor parece inevitável, necessário, tão normal e tão fácil quanto o processo da respiração.”

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Anthony Burgess frases e citações

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“A igreja sustenta que pode ser maltratada, mas os punhos que maltratam conhecem sua própria impotência.”

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“Os homens são influenciados por grandes palavras vazias, chiqueiros que incham as pálpebras e impedem a visão da verdade.”

Anthony Burgess

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“Ele ordenharia o homem branco…. O homem branco tinha mais dinheiro do que bom senso.”

Anthony Burgess

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“Os idiomas nunca param. A ortografia moderna cristaliza as pronúncias perdidas: o visual nunca alcança o aural.”

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“Eu assisti as aldeias cinzentas mancando, o vento rasgando cartazes rasgados de eventos já realizados. O que eu precisava, é claro, era de uma bebida.”

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Anthony Burgess: Frases em inglês

“…all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood”

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Fiction, Devil of a State (1961)

“I come here to your beautiful country -’ Mr Raj saw through the window bare branches, coil after coil of dirty clouds, washing on neighbour lines, forlorn pecking birds, a distant brace of gasometers. ‘- your beautiful country, I say,’ he said defiantly. ‘…So far I have had mixed career. Fights and insults, complete lack of sexual sustenance - most necessary to men in prime of life - and inability to find accommodation commensurate with social position and academic attainments…”

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Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)

“Some young men could not afford to marry or were statutorily forbidden to do so, and then their visits to Japanese brothels engendered guilt as well as VD. The official attitude to taking brown mistresses was always ambivalent. It let the side down, but a sleeping dictionary was the only way to learn the language. Mr Butcher is good on all this, and he gives such tables as one headed ‘Ethnicity of Women from whom European Men Treated at the Sultan Street Clinic Contracted Venereal Disease, 1927-1931.’ The girls of Siam were the great infectresses, but the Malays came a close second. The Japanese, who had regular medical inspections and lived in brothels cleaner than hotels, were down with the Eurasians to 0.4% in 1931. This damnable sex, by no means to be tamed by quinine or cricket. Guilt guilt guilt….”

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Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)

“That’s what it’s going to be then, brothers, as I come to the like end of this tale. You have been everywhere with your little droog Alex, suffering with him, and you have viddied some of the most grahzny bratchnies old Bog ever made, all on to your old droog Alex. And all it was was that I was young. But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes.”

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Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

“…jumped-up commercials pretending, too late, to be the ruling class..”

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Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)

“…it was a cardinal rule in the East not to show one’s true feelings.”

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Fiction, Time for a Tiger (1956)

“Lydgate opened the sort of letter…”My dear husband I very good…I come in flying ship…we be very happy…love.” It was as satisfactory a letter as he had ever received from a woman.”

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Fiction, Devil of a State (1961)

“Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah’ and charpoy…”

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Fiction, Time for a Tiger (1956)

“…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…”

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Fiction, Tremor of Intent (1966)

“…a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.”

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Fiction, 1985 (1978)

“I knew im, she knew im, e knew im, we all knew im.’ After this paradigm, which impressed his hearers, he paused. ‘E was a customer ere. Not perhaps one of the best customers. Not like Roger Alliwell ere oo drinks whisky to the tune of near one bottle a day, which is good for the ouse and, as far as we can see, does imself no arm. But e was a customer, loyal to the ouse, regular in attendance, and that’s all we ask of any man or woman for that matter. Well, now e’s gone. We’re sorry e’s gone. You’re sorry e’s gone. I’m sorry e’s gone. And we can’t say much more than that. Now the question is: is e gone to a better place? I don’t know the answer to that, nor do you, nor does she. Perhaps e knows,’ said Ted, shrugging towards the vicar, ‘because it’s is job to know. But the rest of us don’t know. Right. But I say this. E done is best for all. Never a ard word come out of that man’s art. Right. Well loved e was and for all is faults we would love im still, if e was still alive. But e’s dead now and we wish im all the best in is new destination. And I can’t say no fairer than that.”

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Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)

“Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.”

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Non-Fiction, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965)

“I should want to go home, like Fenella. I should be so tired of the shambles here, the obscurantism, the colour-prejudice, the laziness and ignorance, as to desire nothing better than a headship in a cold stone country school in England. But I love this country. I feel protective towards it. Sometimes just before dawn breaks, I feel that somehow I enclose it, contain it. I feel that it needs me. This is absurd, because snakes and scorpions are ready to bite me, a drunken Tamil is prepared to knife me, the Chinese in the town would like to spit at me, some day a Malay boy will run amok and try to tear me apart. But it doesn’t matter. I want to live here; I want to be wanted. Despite the sweat, despite the fever, the prickly heat, the mosquitoes, the terrorists, the fools at the bar of the club, despite Fenella.”

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Fiction, Time for a Tiger (1956)

“Sit like a fool then, crassly emptying
Glass after wineglass in some foul tavern,
Watching the night and its candles gutter,
Snoring at sunrise.
In England now the wind blows high
And clouds brush rudely at the sky;
The blood runs thinly through my frame,
I half-caress the hearthstone’s flame,
Oppressed by autumn’s desolate cry.
Then homesick for the south am I,
For where the lucky swallows fly,
But each warm land is just a name
In England now.
The luckless workers I espy
With chins dipped low and collars high,
Walk into winter, do not blame
The shifting globe. A gust of shame
Represses my unmanly sigh
In England now.”

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English Literature: A Survey for Students.
Poetry

“…enjoyed Dravidian transports.”

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Fiction, Tremor of Intent (1966)

“it excites the pancreas to fresh efforts”

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Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)

“an Australian…. They have suffered under the yoke of the English…”

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Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)

“…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…”

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Fiction, Devil of a State (1961)

“Why then are the arts and sciences important? I suppose with the sciences we could say that the answer is obvious: we have radium, penicillin, television and recorded sound, motor-cars and aircraft, air-conditioning and central heating. But these achievements have never been the primary intention of science; they are a sort of by-product, the things that emerge only when the scientist has performed his main task. That task is simply stated: to be curious, to keep on asking the question 'Why?' and not to be satisfied till an answer has been found. The scientist is curious about the universe: he wants to know why water boils at one temperature and freezes at another; why cheese is different from chalk; why one person behaves differently from another. Not only 'Why?' but ‘What?' What is salt made of? What are the stars? What is the constitution of all matter? The answers to these questions do not necessarily malke our lives any easier. The answer to one question—'Can the atom be split?' - has made our lives somewhat harder. But the questions have to be asked. It is man's job to be curious; it is man's job to try to find out the truth about the world about us, to answer the big question 'What is the world really like?”

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Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)

“Stamping around, waiting, I cursed England aloud, hands dug deep into pockets, dancing to the wind that knocked in vain at the Sunday shops. Cigarette-packets, football fixtures, bus-tickets sailed by in dust-ghosts of Saturday. A woman with a puce face and a blancmange-coloured prayer-book was waiting also for The Priest and Pig, and she looked puce disapproval at me. Twenty minutes late, the bus yawned in from town, near-empty, and it swallowed us in a gape of Sunday ennui. So we sundayed along, rattling and creaking in Sunday hollowness, I upstairs, tearing my elevenpenny ticket while I read the prospectus of Winter Commercial Classes stuck on the window.”

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Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)

“Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…”

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Fiction, Time for a Tiger (1956)

“…reality’s always dull, you know…”

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Fiction, Time for a Tiger (1956)

“Pornography…. the reader panting, eventually masturbating”

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Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)

“He would milk the white man…. The white man had more money than sense.”

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Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)

“…an Empire now crashing about their ears. The Sikh smiled at the vanity of human aspirations.”

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Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)

“She is a goddess,’ said Ambrose, drunkenly and stoutly. ‘…And she wants me. She’s the pursuer…She’s the epitome of woman, not,’ he said, ‘not a second-hand bundle of coy erogeneity draped,’ he said, ‘in an all-too-diaphanous robe,’ he said, ‘of pudeur.”

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Fiction, The Eve of St. Venus (1964)

“…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women”

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Fiction, Time for a Tiger (1956)

“Grimaldi and a sixteen-year-old girl still at Hollywood High. He was a good journalist but he was going to die soon. At fifty he was on a bottle and a half of Californian brandy a day and four packs of Lucky Strike. His clothes smelt as though they were seeped in tobacco juice. His white forlock was stained with it…”

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Fiction, Earthly Powers (1980)