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<title>
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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