Anthony Burgess
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Sep 17, 2026
TanikaHOST
So that we, yeah, I think we, you know, talk about some of that too.
TanikaHOST
So one book is called A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
TanikaHOST
Basically, it's a disappearing, I think I said that right, satire about a sociopathic, Beethoven-obsessed teen gang leader was banned in 23 districts in the 2024 and 2025 school year.
TanikaHOST
Mm-hmm.
Tejasvi NagarajahGUEST
And so you do have this conflict that's interesting within, let's say, English society, where some people who are part of the Labour Party that sort of rising into the 1945 election articulate an affinity in tension with churchill who they sort of consider more racist and sort of an affinity with these working people so you have particular struggles you know uh the battle of bamber bridge is one well-known one that some people in england know about and other battles at taverns where white american soldiers get into a conflict with black american soldiers and there is some community response some white English people, uh, sort of articulating an affinity.
Tejasvi NagarajahGUEST
And even you hear, uh, you know, George Orwell writes about it or Anthony Burgess writes about it.
Tejasvi NagarajahGUEST
Um, you know, like you said, sometimes self congratulatory and maybe apocryphal as well saying, you know, that there would be, uh, blacks-only bars in a couple of towns in England where they would say, we're not going to serve the white Americans because they're so brutish.
Tejasvi NagarajahGUEST
Orwell and Burgess would say, you know, actually, some English communities would go out of their way to sort of only consort with the black Americans.
Ida Baizura BaharGUEST
And unfortunately, depending on who you speak to, they would have given you a very mixed, ambivalent response towards the Malayan trilogy and how the school has been remembered in the first one, In Time for a Tiger.
Ida Baizura BaharGUEST
Some former students, I know for a fact, they can just laugh it off and say, oh, yeah, it's just Mr. Wilson being Mr. Wilson, because they always remember him as someone who did not conform to this idea of a colonial officer.
Ida Baizura BaharGUEST
But there were also those who were not entirely happy with the depiction of the school, the fact that he named the town where the school is set in a town which did not carry a good meaning in Malay.
Ida Baizura BaharGUEST
But like I said, it's actually a cheeky little in-joke, maybe, because you're talking about an all-boys boarding school, hence that's where they are.
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Ida Baizura BaharGUEST
But maybe owing to his own personality, he thought, why would I want to do that? I can socialize with the same people back home.
Ida Baizura BaharGUEST
This is the time for me to actually be among them.
Ida Baizura BaharGUEST
And I know that one of my uncles was a student of Mr. John Wilson, as he was known back then, taught English to them.
Ida Baizura BaharGUEST
And He said that Mr. Wilson would come in with his rumpled white shirt and his tie, his queue, and he would seem as though he just came back from a long night.
Don WolfHOST
We have a poem today called, That Puff of Air.
Don WolfHOST
That puff of breath between the teeth, the mouth full of air, Anthony Burgess named it, can push us full into the depth of grief or find us easily on the mountain tip.
Don WolfHOST
All it takes is the coincidence of trill vibrations and solemn sound combined with the surest intent and possibilities thereby abound.
Don WolfHOST
Deeply mysterious in its nature, we barely understand the thing at all.
Jake MorrisseyHOST
remember coming across a book.
Jake MorrisseyHOST
This was, I think, published maybe in the 80s by Anthony Burgess called 99 Novels.
Jake MorrisseyHOST
And it was essentially his list of the best novels written in the 20th century.
Jake MorrisseyHOST
Extremely idiosyncratic.
Jake MorrisseyHOST
Heller got Catch-22.
Jake MorrisseyHOST
Anyway, a lot of, and it was a lot of, you know, sort of second and third tier British writers that I had never heard of at the time.
Jake MorrisseyHOST
My point in all this is that there's a, you got more sense of what Anthony Burgess wanted to read than you did what Jake Morrissey wanted to read, which of course is the point.
Jake MorrisseyHOST
But at the same time, you're like, yeah, I'm not here for probably 85% of what you wanted.
Sergio AngeliniGUEST
And I think the early Ian Fleming books are actually pretty good.
Sergio AngeliniGUEST
I think Casino Royale and From Russia With Love hold up extremely well, for instance, as books written in a kind of heightened journalistic style, which is the definition that Anthony Burgess gave to Fleming's approach to writing.
Sergio AngeliniGUEST
And I really got into it after that.
Sergio AngeliniGUEST
So partly it was the literature.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
I think it, it, it becomes a very popular subject for writers.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
So Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
I always think you can compare that with Lord of the Flies.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
They're published something like eight years apart.
Emily WarnerGUEST
This will be CoCandy Productions' first play with music.
Emily WarnerGUEST
Based on the dark dystopian novel, Anthony Burgess, the author himself, penned the stage rendition of his book.
Emily WarnerGUEST
We follow Alex and his droogs through a tale of violence, sensuality, and the limits of human agency.
Emily WarnerGUEST
Another book to stage production to look forward to is the world premiere of Shane at City Lit Theatre, which is now currently performing until October 4th at Edgewater Presbyterian Church.
Annie Rose MalamutHOST
And he...
Annie Rose MalamutHOST
He adapts this novel by Anthony Burgess called A Clockwork Orange from 1962.
Annie Rose MalamutHOST
And Anthony Burgess, the way he wrote this novel is he was misdiagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.
Annie Rose MalamutHOST
So he sat down and he wrote a bunch of novels and this was one of them.
Annie Rose MalamutHOST
And he did not in his lifetime think that this was his best work, but it is his most famous and striking.
Annie Rose MalamutHOST
Yeah, exactly.
Annie Rose MalamutHOST
The story is pretty much summarized in its title, A Clockwork Orange.
Annie Rose MalamutHOST
Anthony Burgess said he came up with this title because he that it was like an expression for queer and not like queer as in the LGBT mafia, the alphabet mafia, but queer is an odd expression.
Curtis RunstedlerGUEST
And we see this with J.G. Ballard's book, too.
Curtis RunstedlerGUEST
Also going back to Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, too, which is a really important text, too, for, I think, as a punk text.
Curtis RunstedlerGUEST
Again, it's not quite cyberpunk, but there's kind of traces of the cyberpunk world there, too.
Curtis RunstedlerGUEST
You have these kind of youth who are incredibly intelligent, too, but they're not properly nurtured as well, too.
Curtis RunstedlerGUEST
They enjoy kind of raping and killing, too.
Curtis RunstedlerGUEST
It's a... terrifying scenario that he kind of presents us with too.
Curtis RunstedlerGUEST
And I think, you know, Burgess was working on the Christian aspects too, but I think it's also about kind of thinking for yourself too.
Curtis RunstedlerGUEST
And there's also this aversiveness to the text too, with how kind of Alex challenges us as readers too, and also how he challenges the establishment and also how Burgess is kind of critiquing the establishment too, is the punishment worthy of the kind of rehabilitation, the horrifying rehabilitation that takes place too.
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