One Man's Chorus gathers various essays and pieces of journalism written by Anthony Burgess throughout the later years of his life.[1] It was published posthumously in 1998.[2] The book is edited and introduced by Ben Forkner.[3]
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| Author | Anthony Burgess |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Journalism |
| Publisher | Carroll & Graf |
Publication date | Dec 1998 |
| Publication place | Various |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
| Pages | 380 p. |
| ISBN | 0-7867-0568-X (hardback), ISBN 0-7867-0699-6 (paperback) |
| OCLC | 40283602 |
| 823/.914 21 | |
| LC Class | PR6052.U638 A6 1998 |
While several of the essays may be considered autobiographical, others contain Burgess's thoughts on a wide variety of subjects including geography, culture, linguistics, and novelists.[2][3]
Contents
edit- Introduction (by Ben Forkner)
- Genius Loci
- The Ball Is Free to Roll
- Francophonia
- Going North
- Understanding the French
- Never Again Again
- Something About Malaysia
- The Brigg
- Winterreise
- The Art of Liking Rome
- France and Myself
- Farewell (& Hello Again) Manchester
- Life (of a Sort) in Venice
- Manchester as Was
- In Our Time (and Other Reflections)
- Cut Off
- The Royals
- England in Europe
- After This Our Exile
- Thoughts on Time
- The Jew and the Joke
- The British Temper
- The World Doesn't Like Gipsies
- What Makes Comedy Comic?
- Thoughts on the Thatcher Decade
- Dirty Pictures
- God and God's Voices
- Ars Poetica
- Success
- The Celtic Sacrifice
- Shaw as Musician
- Ring
- The Literature of the British from 1900 to 1982
- All About Alice
- Flann O'Brien A Prefatory Word
- Artist's Life
- Elgar non è volgare
- The Gaudiness of Gaudí
- Orson Welles: The Artist as Bricoleur
- A Clockwork Orange Resucked
- The Brotherhood
- Why Were the Revolutionaries Reactionary?
- Shakespeare the Poet
- The Oriental Diseases of Fiction
- Playing Hamlet with Hamlet
- Graham Greene: A Reminiscence
- Craft and Crucifixion—the Writing of Fiction
- Strega in Do Maggiore
- First Novel
- Anniversaries and Celebrations
- Joyce as Centenarian
- Great Scott?
- Rudyard Kipling and the White Man's Burden
- Domesday
- Lorenzo
- Quiet Pioneer
- Good Gluck
- Unravelling Ravel
- God Struck with His Wind
- Celebrating T. S. Eliot, Parts I and II
- Lord Olivier
- Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–1889
- Two Hundred Years of the Bounty
- Our Eternal Holmes
- The Cold Eye of Yeats
- Father of the OED
- Chaplin on Stage
- Evelyn Waugh: A Revaluation
- James Joyce: Fifty Years After
- Tolkien: A Centenary
- Virginia Woolf Mortua 1941
- Marilyn
References
edit- ^ "One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings by Anthony Burgess". Publishers Weekly. 30 November 1998. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
- ^ a b Olson, Ray (1 December 1998). "One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings". Booklist. 95 (7): 644 – via Gale.
- ^ a b Block Jr., Edwin F. (13 March 1999). "One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings of Anthony Burgess". America. Vol. 180, no. 8. p. 37. Retrieved 24 December 2024 – via Gale.
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