English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1630 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
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The idea
Anthony Burgess, a comic novelist who was also a composer, wrote A Clockwork Orange, of nineteen sixty-two, a dystopian satire narrated by the violent teenager Alex in "Nadsat," a Russian-influenced slang, about the state's attempts to reform him.
In practice
A violent narrator; invented slang.
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