Anthony Burgess: Lots of Fun at Finnigan's Wake.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bloomsbury Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--Writing style.

Criticism.

Literary theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file)

Distribution:

London: Bloomsbury Video. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2022.

Other Title:

Bloomsbury Video Library.

Place of Publication:

Kent, CT.: Creative Arts Television. 2017.

Biography/History:

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL, who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> remains his best-known novel. .

Summary:

Author-critic Anthony Burgess explores in a free-wheeling way perspectives of James Joyce's great experimental novel <i>Finnegans Wake</i>. He is in the unusual setting of an Irish pub, utilizing a variety of props to illustrate his points. Burgess, erudite and ironic, brings in photographs, history and even sings a song from the book - the "Ballad of Persse O'Reilly." All this with Burgess leaning on the big wooden bar of the pub. Internationally known author Burgess (<i>A Clockwork Orange</i>, <i>ReJoyce</i>, etc.) has always been fascinated by <i>Finnegans Wake</i>, its idiosyncratic language, its enormously complicated structure, and its attempt to address those most universal human questions of life, death, sex, mind, and mankind's fall and resurrection. .

Credits:

Director, John Musilli ; producer, John Musilli.

ISBN:

9781350920156

OCLC:

1356504248

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.