30+ Anthony Burgess Clockwork Orange Background. A clockwork orange is anthony burgess's most famous novel and its impact on literary, musical and visual culture has been extensive. After six years in the army he worked as an instructor for the central advisory council for forces education, as a lecturer in phonetics and as.
Anthony burgess had a remarkably diverse range of interests and talents. Anthony burgess was born in manchester in 1917 and is a graduate of the university there. In a dystopic future where street crime is rampant and youths are uncontrollable, teenage sociopath alex and his friends prowl the night spreading terror and destruction.
What can you do in only three weeks?
In 1918, his mother and sister died in an influenza pandemic, and he grew up with his father and a between 1959 and 1962, burgess wrote several novels, among them a clockwork orange. Before writing a clockwork orange, anthony burgess thought he was going to die. Anthony burgess — a clockwork orange genre: Teen gang leader alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling against society.