Anthony Burgess quotes - page 14

Burgess's tarty charlatanry was central to his genius. (Anthony Burgess)
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. View quote
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He has never done better than in his opening trilogy about Malaya... View quote
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[T]he post-Joycean artist as lecher-poet, obsessed with death, language and his own insides. View quote
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[T]he parody is so much better than anything that W. Somerset Maugham ever wrote himself. View quote
Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

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Occupation: English Writer
Born: February 25, 1917
Died: November 22, 1993
Quotes count: 330
Wikipedia: Anthony Burgess

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