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Anthony Burgess, pseudonym of John Anthony Burgess Wilson (Manchester (England), 25 February 1917 – 22 november London, 1993) was a British writer. He worked as an education officer in Brunei and Malaysia after the Second World War. In 1959 there was a brain tumor diagnosed in him and he had a life expectancy of a few months. He gave the teaching at and became a full-time writer. In his career as a writer, he published more than 50 books in many genres including fiction and science fiction. He also wrote a James Joyce Handbook titled Here comes everybody. Anthony Burgess died of lung cancer.

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  • Anthony Burgess, pseudonym of John Anthony Burgess Wilson (Manchester (England), 25 February 1917 – 22 november London, 1993) was a British writer. He worked as an education officer in Brunei and Malaysia after the Second World War. In 1959 there was a brain tumor diagnosed in him and he had a life expectancy of a few months. He gave the teaching at and became a full-time writer. In his career as a writer, he published more than 50 books in many genres including fiction and science fiction. He also wrote a James Joyce Handbook titled Here comes everybody. Anthony Burgess died of lung cancer.
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  • Anthony Burgess, pseudonym of John Anthony Burgess Wilson (Manchester (England), 25 February 1917 – 22 november London, 1993) was a British writer. He worked as an education officer in Brunei and Malaysia after the Second World War. In 1959 there was a brain tumor diagnosed in him and he had a life expectancy of a few months. He gave the teaching at and became a full-time writer. In his career as a writer, he published more than 50 books in many genres including fiction and science fiction. He also wrote a James Joyce Handbook titled Here comes everybody. His most famous and most notorious book was A Clockwork Orange, made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. The book-that to London in the near future-is essentially about free will and morality. The young anti-hero of the book, Alex, is captured after a life of violence. He gets a kind of brainwashing for its thuggery to stop: he is vulnerable towards other people and can also no longer enjoy music (the only other pleasure in his life). The film was banned in many countries and remains very controversial. In addition to writing of books has also translated books and some Burgess symphonies composed. He spoke nine languages and his love of language also comes up in the text of A Clockwork Orange. In it speak the teenagers called Nadsat, a language based on English slang and Russian ( droogsare friends, girls sofisto's devotchkas and intellectuals). For the film Quest for Fire(1981) devised a full Burgess prehistoric language. Anthony Burgess died of lung cancer. Autobiography: Little Wilson and Big God
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