John Anthony Burgess Wilson was a genius when it came to inventing himself. Born into a working-class family in Manchester, he educated himself by reading widely, taught himself how to compose music, and got himself into university. He served in the British Army during the Second World War, and afterwards became a school teacher in […]
Burgess and the idea of a single European language
Review by Andrew Biswell.
Burgess’s literary and musical responses to the famous poet. By Andrew Biswell
Burgess’s strange Anglo-Russian comedy. By Andrew Biswell.
Images of Burgess’s haunts in Banbury and Adderbury, where he lived in the early 1950s. By Andrew Biswell.
A seedy flat and literary revenge. By Andrew Biswell.
Burgess and Beckett: ‘We’re all in it really, strapped to a porcupine sofa, waiting for God and water, becalmed in our filth’… by Andrew Biswell