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Nearly 40 years ago, on the ferry from Liverpool to Dublin, I hurled one of Burgess's Enderby novels into the Irish Sea, unable to bear another word. I have thought of him ever since as a pretentious windbag, a buttonholing bore whose writing had energy but no vitality.
Anthony Burgess
He has never done better than in his opening trilogy about Malaya...
Anthony Burgess
[T]he post-Joycean artist as lecher-poet, obsessed with death, language and his own insides.
Anthony Burgess
[T]he parody is so much better than anything that W. Somerset Maugham ever wrote himself.
Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess
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Occupation:
English Writer
Born:
February 25, 1917
Died:
November 22, 1993
Quotes count:
330
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Anthony Burgess
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