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
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Artist: David Pelham for Penguin Books UK