In Burgess's infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, 15-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the state tries to reform him - but at what cost?

Anthony burgess a clockwork orange

L'orange mecanique

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

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

Un chef-d'oeuvre de science-fiction par l'auteur de L'Orange mécanique Alors que la Terre est épuisée par la surpopulation, les autorités luttent avec acharnement contre ce fléau. On encourage l'homosexualité - " Qui dit Sapiens dit Homo ", proclame le ministère de l'Infertilité - et on limite les naissances. Mais cela ne suffit pas et, inexorablement, on s'achemine vers l'ultime issue pour gérer la population : la guerre. Un homme, l'humble professeur Tristram, sera pris dans le maelström d'une histoire qui, devenue folle, dévore ses enfants. Prophétique, flamboyant, La Folle Semence met en scène, avec un humour tout britannique, l'humanisme face aux forces de la destruction. " Anthony Burgess, ou la déraison pure. Un talent déchaîné de pince-sans-rire, doublé d'une érudition à faire frémir. " L'Express

La folle semence

Du Miel pour les Ours

L'homme de nazareth

En 1985, la télévision suédoise la fait se rencontrer pour la première fois deux écrivains majeurs du XXe siècle : Isaac Bashevis Singer et Anthony Burgess. Les questions de la journaliste portant sur l'Apocalypse, l'extase, le Mal, le libre arbitre, les origines et la question du récit, conduisent les deux écrivains à évoquer leurs univers religieux respectifs, le judaïsme et le catholicisme. Tandis que Burgess parle de son enfance, de ses livres (notamment Orange mécanique), du Mal et de Satan, Singer parle de Dieu, de la littérature, du yiddish ; on assiste là à la plus improbable des rencontres entre deux monstres sacrés de la littérature.

Rencontre au Sommet

A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess’s most famous novel and its impact on literary, musical and visual culture has been extensive. The novel is concerned with the conflict between the individual and the state, the punishment of young criminals, and the possibility or otherwise of redemption. The linguistic originality of the book, and the moral questions it raises, are as relevant now as they ever were.Source: anthonyburgess.org

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