The pleasures and diversions of the flesh are delightful, and, if God had anything to do with them, I'd thank God for them. This is the great age of communications, but what the hell are we trying to communicate about? Certainly not reality. "Goodness is a matter of common sense, something required by the community, but truth and beauty remain values - totally useless and the only totally human things we're capable of pursuing. Here's one, my droogs of today – read it and weep: In the meantime, Manchester Metropolitan University has released a couple of excerpts from the work. "But I think it would need quite a lot of editing, and it would require the right designer to catch the mood of what's there." "There's enough there in the way of the writing that's completed and the synopsis that you can understand what this book might have been," he says. Still, Burgess had already agreed to write something under the name of "Clockwork." That project ultimately became The Clockwork Testament, a novella published in the mid-1970s that was partly inspired by his own experiences writing A Clockwork Orange and seeing it translated to the big screen.īut Biswell won't rule out the possibility that the unfinished manuscript could still be published. "I think he became so embroiled and immersed in these other literary projects that he ended up not writing this book about the human condition," Biswell says. Biswell says the novelist saw a wealth of opportunities arise after the release of director Stanley Kubrick's film, including an ill-fated attempt by the two men to make a movie about Napoleon. So why did The Clockwork Condition never see the light of day? It was found in a snowdrift of the late novelist's materials, stacks of papers and about 1,000 hours of recordings at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester during the long process of cataloguing.
On Thursday, Manchester Metropolitan University, where Biswell teaches modern literature, announced that the professor had unearthed the long-lost manuscript. But alas, it never was - the manuscript was never published, and despite rumors of the project, it was never found either. Written under the name The Clockwork Condition, the work was to be a philosophical meditation on the very nature of modern life.
So, according to Burgess scholar Andrew Biswell, the novelist got to work on a brief piece, which soon became a big piece, which eventually ballooned to 200 pages. Not long after the 1971 release of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, the novel's author, Anthony Burgess, received an offer from a publisher: Write a short follow-up to the novel, one that uses the word "Clockwork" in the title and brims with artwork, and we will make you a rich man. Anthony Burgess poses for a photograph in 1973, two years after the release of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange - and right around the time he was working on the recently unearthed manuscript.
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