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- Dec. 06, 1993: Died:Anthony Burgess
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Dec. 06, 1993 Castro's Cuba:The End Of The Dream
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <p> DIED. ANTHONY BURGESS, 76, writer and composer; in London. Burgess
- was the author of more than 50 novels, radio and television
- scripts and innumerable articles and essays, and a composer
- of operas, symphonies and concertos, yet his famemuch to his
- chagrinrested largely on Stanley Kubricks violent 1971 film
- adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, the dystopian, futuristic
- novel Burgess published in 1962. Born in Manchester, England,
- Burgess served six years in the British Army during World War
- II and worked as a teacher until 1959, when he was told he had
- inoperable brain cancer and had a year to live. He turned to
- writing in hopes of generating income to leave his family, and
- when the diagnosis proved incorrect, he never stopped. Among
- his works are a series of comic novels following the exploits
- of F.X. Enderby, poet and permanent adolescent; a translation
- of Cyrano de Bergerac, the basis of Burgesss own Broadway musical
- version. Among Burgess's most recent writings was A Mouthful
- of Air, a collection of ruminations on language in general,
- English in particular. A lifelong linguist, he wrote A Clockwork
- Orange in an invented slang of English, Russian and even a dash
- of Gypsy.
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