bohater-bez-cenzury: A Clockwork Orange (novel)

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A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel. The film employs disturbing and violent themes to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and broader social, political, and economic issues in a dystopian near-future Britain. Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the central character, is a charismatic, anti-social delinquent whose interests include classical music (especially that of Beethoven), committing rape, theft, and "ultra-violence". He leads a small gang of thugs, Pete (Michael Tarn), Georgie (James Marcus), and Dim (Warren Clarke), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian word…

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John Anthony Burgess Wilson (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), commonly known as Anthony Burgess, was an English writer, screenwriter, and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. Burgess produced a number of other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de B…

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La Naranja Mecánica. Burgess, Anthony. Penguin Books Ltd, 1962.. Han pasado algunos años desde que Anthony Burgess escribió La naranja mecánica, 60 años para ser exactos, una novela que me atrapó desde sus primeras páginas y que leí gracias a una recomendación otorgada por Canal Once. Si bien, al principio la historia es muy bizarra –en el sentido anglosajón de la palabra–, posteriormente parece que toma forma y la historia se arma como un rompecabezas, es muy fácil sentir emociones positivas o negativas hacia el protagonista, Alex y su vida cotidiana.

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A Clockwork Orange is a novel by the English writer Anthony Burgess, published on 17 March 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him.