Re: Anthony Burgess died (25/11/1999)

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 8:49:20 +0000, Ross Clark wrote:

Born Manchester, 1952.
Best known for _A Clockwork Orange_ (1952), filmed by Stanley Kubrick
(1971).
Definitely a language buff. For his dystopian future, he invented a teen
slang with a lot of Russian words in it. I liked "horror show" (хорошо
'good'). But I never finished the book. Never saw the movie either,
though it was much talked about -- still gets an 8.2 on IMDb. From what
I heard and saw of it, it struck me as glamorizing violence in a way
that was very fashionable at the time, but not to my taste. Maybe I was
wrong.
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Anyhow, Burgess also created a prehistoric language for _Quest for
Fire_. Or maybe two? Was that the one where the more advanced people
spoke something that sounded suspiciously like Proto-Indo-European?
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Wrote two popular books about language: Language Made Plain (1964) and A
Mouthful of Air (1992). Both made the prestigeous "books I bought but
never read" long-list. Anybody read them?

Kubrick is considered a modern master...
What are some of your favorite films?   Bergman  or Felini ?
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