Thursday, September 14, 2017
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess. A satire portraying a future and dystopian Western society with�based on contemporary trends�a culture of extreme youth rebellion and violence: it explores the violent nature of humans, human free will to choose between good or evil, and the desolation of free will as a solution to evil. Burgess experiments with language, writing in a Russian-influenced argot called "Nadsat" used by the younger characters and the anti-hero in his first-person narration. According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu desprit written in just three weeks. He bemoaned the fact that the book had been taken as the source material for a 1971 film that was perceived to glorify sex and violence. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Clockwork Orange 65th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.


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