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The year was unprecedentedly hot: during that summer England seemed to be boiling up, partly with crisis, partly with rage. Burgess was also famed as a raconteur, and that might be the closest approximation of delight you feel reading him: you're in company with a brilliant mind who makes everything entertaining and comprehensible. ondon was certainly hard on the nerves in 1976-the year, I’m sure, when Anthony Burgess’s admonitory new fiction was conceived. It's a masterclass in everything from history and sociology to pop culture and sexuality, and breezes by like a cheery pop song. It's hard to make profound ideas read so easily Burgess does, with such artfulness that you almost forget how profound it is. In 1985, Anthony Burgess, who was devoted to Joyce and greatly admired Louis le Brocquy, agreed in principle that he would write a 20-page introduction to the special edition of. In this passage Burgess discusses Nineteen Eighty-Four as a creative. The first half of Burgess’s book contains a commentary on Orwell’s dystopia and discusses the origins of IngSoc. I don't agree with everything Burgess writes, but the way he writes it is spectacular. Burgess’s most sustained analysis of Orwell comes in 1985, a critical/creative book which responds to many of the ideas in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears. Its indignation is blazingly imaginative, furiously vital and gives us hope * Financial Times * The unclassifiable Mr Burgess has once more broken new ground - Kingsley Amis * Observer * There is too much which is truly excellent for anyone to ignore it - Auberon Waugh * Evening Standard * Burgess is the great postmodern storehouse of British writing - an important experimentalist an encyclopaedic amasser, but also a maker of form a playful comic, with a dark gloom - Malcolm Bradbury One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation * The Times * Wonderful. In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwells 1984 in one book. An exciting, bleakly fascinating story told with enormous erudition and wit.