Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pinter, Karoly

Titel

Burgess in the Orwell Game: 1985 as Cacotopian Ars Poetica

Ist Teil von

• The AnaChronist, 2022-01, Vol.20, p.120

Ort / Verlag

Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem, Department of English Studies

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The book 1985 is the third and last dystopia in the oeuvre of Anthony Burgess. It can be considered unique since it contains a string of non-fictional texts reflecting on Orwell’s classic as well as related philosophical, political, social, and theological issues, followed by a dystopian novella entitled “1985.” The essay argues that the book, but especially the essays, can be read as Burgess’s “cacotopian ars poetica,” or his last and most extensive statement on the genre.