The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess: Fire of Words

by Jim Clarke

Book Overview

The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess's fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of the twentieth century's most innovative authors. This book explores Burgess's dazzlingly diverse range of novels through the one key theme which links them all - the artistic process itself.

Borrowing from Nietzsche's aesthetic dichotomy of Apollo and Dionysus,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319664107
• ISBN13: 9783319664101
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"