Anthony Burgess

Bibliography and references

Anthony Burgess had an immense literary and musical output. Listed in the sections below are all of his published works, and some of the works of other writers whom he edited. Uncollected and unpublished writings are not listed; nor are all the introductions and prefaces he contributed to other writers’ works.

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Film and television:

  • Monitor: Silence, Exile and Cunning. Directed by Christopher Burstall. BBC 1, 1965.
  • Moses the Lawgiver. Directed by Gianfranco DeBosio. Produced by Lew Grade. Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) / ITC, 1974.
  • Jesus of Nazareth. RAI/ITC. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, 1977.
  • Celebration: Burgess in Manchester. Produced and directed by Sita Williams. Granada Television, 1980.
  • Writers and Places: A Kind of Failure. Directed by David Wallace. BBC 2, 1981.
  • Quest for Fire. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. International Cinema Productions/20th Century Fox, 1982. Burgess devised the invented language, a speculative reconstruction of Indo-European. Screenplay by Gérard Brach, adapted from the novel by J.H. Rosny.
  • AD: Anno Domini. Directed by Stuart Cooper. Ten-hour TV mini-series, 1985. Script and incidental music by Burgess.
  • Cyrano de Bergerac. Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. UGC (France), 1990. English subtitles by Anthony Burgess.