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“Non si chiedono mica quale è la causa della bontà. e allora perché il contrario?”
A Clockwork Orange
Arancia Meccanica
Variante: Non si chiedono mica qual è la causa della bontà, e allora perchè il contrario?
Origine: Lettera al Los Angeles Times http://www.archiviokubrick.it/opere/film/am/burgess.html, 13 febbraio 1972. Traduzione dall'inglese come in Arancia Meccanica, Einaudi Tascabili 351
Anthony Burgess Frasi e Citazioni
Anthony Burgess, Corriere della Sera, 29-4-1978
Arancia Meccanica
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Anthony Burgess: Frasi in inglese
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Poetry
Pop Music
Fiction, The Kingdom of the Wicked (1985)
Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
“…death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles.”
Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)
“Chickaks or geckos chirp on the walls….”
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)
Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)
Fiction, Napoleon Symphony (1974)
Fiction, The Doctor is Sick (1960)
Non-Fiction, "Novel, The"
Fiction, Earthly Powers (1980)
Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)
Fiction, The Wanting Seed (1962)
“In Lady Chatterley’s Lover we meet the ancient honest word fuck.”
Lawrence believed that it could be cleansed of its centuries of accumulated filth and stalk nakedly through his pages like Connie and Mellors themselves, standing for an act of love which had been too long swaddled in euphemisms. There are many people who cherish the fallacy of a golden age of Anglo-Saxon candour in which lovers invited each other to fuck or be fucked….This was never so. The word has always been taboo. You will find no Anglo-Saxon document which contains it. True, it is old, cognate with the German ficken, but it stands for a brutal act unsuitable for the marriage bed. It connotes impersonality and aggression. When Dr Johnson said that drinking and fucking were the only things worth doing…he was referring to getting drunk and going to brothels. A man can fuck a whore but, unless his wife is a whore, he cannot fuck his wife….fuck is a…dysphemism….there is no love in it. Lawrence made an aesthetic rather than a moral gaffe….
Non-Fiction, Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence (1985)
spring from a kind of mother fixation as well as a terror of the cold. He was a bull of a man much given to boats and riparian dalliance, but he had bad circulation. He had other things too, including a Chinese-style priapism which enabled him to copulate, usually in public, six times in a row, the secret being his failure to detumesce. This, of course, like acne and the common cold, can be a symptom of tertiary syphilis, which Maupassant certainly had.
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Fiction, Napoleon Symphony (1974)
Fiction, Tremor of Intent (1966)
He waved his hand wildly into the black night. 'Out there, west. You wasn’t there, so you wouldn’t know. Now I was. Palestine Police from the end of the war till we packed up. That was the East. You was in India, and that’s not the East any more than this is. So you know nothing about it either. So you needn’t be talking.'
Fiction, Time for a Tiger (1956)
