Janet, on the other hand, represents the common consumer who is overly influenced by television and swayed by material things. Howard often feels disappointed that his actions merely provide entertainment instead of enlightenment. There is a definite anger directed towards the game-show industry which values money and entertainment over the subject matter that they base their questions on. This book displays Burgess’ opposition against the emphasis placed on wealth instead of knowledge. However, all is not well within Howard’s mind as he proves that money does not change the commonplace ignorance of everyday life.
Howard’s acquisition of wealth serves as a catalyst that allows the couple to enjoy the finer things in life. Howard possesses the uncommon gift of a photographic memory which he uses to win a large sum of cash on a game show. Janet is beautiful, but her education leaves a lot to be desired. Janet and Howard are lower-middle-class residents of Bradcaster who have fallen into a familial marital routine of working, eating, and watching television. This novel is a social satire that warns against the effects of complacency and too much television. He translated and adapted Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King, and Carmen for the stage scripted Jesus of Nazareth and Moses the Lawgiver for the screen invented the prehistoric language spoken in Quest for Fire and composed the Sinfoni Melayu, the Symphony (No. He published studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence, produced the treatises on linguistics Language Made Plain and A Mouthful of Air, and was a prolific journalist, writing in several languages. His fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days of Britain's empire in the East the Enderby quartet of novels about a poet and his muse Nothing Like the Sun, a recreation of Shakespeare's love-life A Clockwork Orange, an exploration of the nature of evil and Earthly Powers, a panoramic saga of the 20th century. Born in Manchester, he lived for long periods in Southeast Asia, the USA and Mediterranean Europe as well as in England.
He was also a librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Īnthony Burgess was a British novelist, critic and composer.
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