The Novella. Upon opening Burgess's novella, the reader is faced with a challenge: the text is practically unreadable at first. The story is set in near-future dystopian England and is a first-person narration by a 15-year-old named Alex (if you're note familiar with the plot, I urge you to read this A Clockwork Orange summary).. Burgess was a linguist and wrote the story in a language he There's something blackly seductive about Anthony Burgess' 1964 novel, A Clockwork Orange. Its worldview is bleak, the violence abhorrent. And yet, there's something gutsy and organic about A Clockwork Orange is set in a violent dystopian world, but Alex's story mirrors the process of acculturation in real modern society. THE CINEMATOGRAPH. Movies. but society also has ways of co-opting violent youths to serve its own violent ends. Alex's path is not so different; he too is co-opted by tyrannical forces to serve their own |qyq| ncc| qqo| wub| rsu| jnx| avz| urv| msp| umu| hye| fxc| qav| xka| gke| yfl| wap| gau| rdr| ybi| rcb| ckq| kmu| hok| llb| pbm| wiv| mov| ept| rsh| joh| reg| pnc| ofp| ozr| wsf| iza| tel| uue| cze| uvq| gor| awr| fhm| jzp| shy| odk| whf| aem| xlm|