Le testament de l'orange

Devenu classique du cinéma grâce à Stanley Kubrick, ce thriller d’anticipation nous entraîne dans les pas d’Alex, voyou de treize ans désœuvré, qui avec sa bande, vole, viole, torture, se bat... dans un Londres futuriste fait de peur et d’ennui. Emprisonné, le jeune homme subit un traitement qui le rend allergique à la violence et au sexe. À sa libération, il doit affronter ses anciennes victimes.

L'orange mécanique

Fifteen-year-old Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill?

Clockwork orange, a

L'homme de nazareth

Modern fiction/Classic fictionA rollicking, panoramic epic of 20th century literature by the author of A Clockwork Orange. 'Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes' Martin Amis

Earthly Powers

Du Miel pour les Ours

The Wanting Seed could be described as a Malthusian comedy, for its underlying theme is the problem the whole world may soon have to face--over-population--and its technique is fantasy and caricature. The setting is England (one of the chief members of Enspun or the English-Speaking Union) and the time is less the future than a sort of extension of the present.The story is concerned with the vicissitudes of Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna in their skyscraper world of spacelessness where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality ("It's Sapiens to be Homo") and which is eventually transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious."[The Wanting Seed] is wildly and fantastically funny. …Here too is all the usual rich exuberance of Mr. Burgess's vocabulary, his love of quotations and literary allusions--the book ends with a quotation from Valery--his fantastic dream and nightmare sequences. …a remarkable and brilliantly imaginative novel, vital and inventive." -- Times Literary Supplement

La Folle Semence

Napoleon the tyrant, lover, general, and doomed hero are woven together in this story of his life from his early military campaigns and courtships to his exile and death on St. Helena.

La symphonie Napoléon

Le décor inquiétant de cette fable anti-utopiste est bien connu : c'est celui de la banlieue concentrationnaire qui va recouvrir peu à peu la surface habitable de la planète. Une immense zone urbaine d'ennui, de désolation et de peur. Sur ce monde déshumanisé et ses habitants asservis, Alex, le voyou au charme pervers féru de musique classique et de langues anciennes, entend régner par la violence et la terreur. À la tête de sa horde adolescente, il matraque, viole, brûle, torture, et s'acharne à détruire une société programmée pour le bonheur et le progrès.

Le testament de l'orange

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