Monday, 29 April 2019

'A Clockwork Orange' Follow-Up Found in Burgess Archives

'A Clockwork Orange' Follow-Up Found in Burgess Archives

A literature professor at Manchester Metropolitan University recently unearthed a legendary manuscript: a 200-page work titled The Clockwork Condition by A Clockwork Orange’s Anthony Burgess. Don’t get too excited, Droog lovers. Colin Dwyer at NPR reports that Condition is not a sequel to the cult novel, but rather a meditation on the “condition of modern man” that was to be structured similarly to Dante’s Inferno. The manuscript was also something of a cash grab. After the release and success of Stanley Kubrick’s film version of book in 1971, a publisher reached out to Burgess...
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/clockwork-orange-follow-found-burgess-archives-180972050/?source=Snapzu

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