Saturday, February 25, 2017

The Essence of Human...A Clockwork Orange's Anthony Burgess@100


Today February 25 2017 is 100th birth anniversary of Anthony Burgess, writer of "A Clockwork Orange", 1962


The Economist, June 1999:

‘“A Clockwork Orange”, from Anthony Burgess's novel, has been a victim of its own violence and tarred with a false reputation for sensationalism. Actually, beneath its violent surface, this challenging film is a philosophical debate on the role of free will. If ultra-violent Alex de Large is surgically altered to make him docile, is he still human? Does the essence of humanity not reside in the right to choose wrong?’




Malcolm McDowell in Stanley Kubrick's ‘A Clockwork Orange’,  1971

courtesy: Warner Bros. and Columbia-Warner Distributors


Artist: David Pelham for Penguin Books UK

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