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Anthony Burgess, pseudonimo di John Burgess Wilson , è stato uno scrittore, critico letterario e glottoteta britannico, attivo anche come compositore, librettista, poeta, drammaturgo, sceneggiatore, giornalista, saggista, traduttore ed educatore.

È considerato uno dei più grandi autori inglesi del Novecento. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Febbraio 1917 – 22. Novembre 1993
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Anthony Burgess: 308 citazioni5 Mi piace

Anthony Burgess frasi celebri

“Devo forse essere soltanto un’arancia meccanica?”

Anthony Burgess

Arancia Meccanica

“L'arte è pericolosa. È una delle sue attrattive: quando cessa di essere pericolosa, tu non la vuoi.”

Anthony Burgess

da The Face, dicembre 1984

“Non si chiedono mica quale è la causa della bontà. e allora perché il contrario?”

Anthony Burgess libro Arancia meccanica

A Clockwork Orange
Arancia Meccanica
Variante: Non si chiedono mica qual è la causa della bontà, e allora perchè il contrario?

“Ma il vero peccato sta nell’intenzione esistenziale. Un uomo che non può scegliere cessa di essere un uomo.”

Anthony Burgess

Arancia Meccanica

“La guerra è il sistema più spiccio per trasmettere una cultura.”

Anthony Burgess

da 1984 & 1985

“Se Arancia meccanica, così come 1984, rientra nel novero dei salutari moniti letterari – o cinematografici – contro l'indifferenza, la sensibilità morbosa e l'eccessiva fiducia nello Stato, allora quest'opera avrà qualche valore.”

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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

“Il terrorismo viene presentato dai terroristi medesimi come uno strumento ad alta finalità, ma gli strumenti hanno la tendenza ad impinguarsi delle finalità fino a sostituirsi ad esse. Lo strumento rende la vita tollerabile al funzionario, laddove la finalità non si mostra bastevole o sufficiente. Solo anime innocenti possono essere capaci di deplorare la crudeltà di mezzi necessari alla instaurazione di finalità gloriose. Uno di questi era Michail Bakunin, santo patrono degli anarchici. Bakunin aveva studiato Hegel, che insegnava l'inevitabilità dell'avvento del millennio. L'Hegelismo applicato è riscontrabile tanto nel marxismo quanto nel bakuninismo, le due dottrine che, entrambe, insegnavano come il cammino dell'inevitabilità possa essere accelerato dall'azione dell'uomo. Azione chiamata rivoluzione nella sfera delle idee, terrorismo nella sfera della pratica”

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess, Corriere della Sera, 29-4-1978

“In realtà lui non ha scelta, vero? Era il proprio interesse, la paura del dolore fisico che lo hanno spinto a quel grottesco gesto di autoavvilimento. La sua insincerità era anche troppo evidente. Cessa di essere un malfattore, ma cessa anche di essere una creatura capace di scelta morale.”

Anthony Burgess

Arancia Meccanica

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“Era come un uccello del cielo celeste più raramente filato o come un vino argenteo che scorreva su un'astronave, la gravità ora non ha senso.”

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Anthony Burgess: Frasi in inglese

“…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)

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