Greene once described himself as a Protestant in the heart of the Church.So it goes, Burgess and Greene both grandstanding here ..!and yr voicing of old Greene’s letter was high jinks at its best. All that Irish hooey of Burgess’s is a bit hard to swallow.And the business about jealousy is interesting. Burgess so says the late Harold Bloom was a friend and Bloom admired his Joycean posture, this is a passing remark the critic made en passant.It would be more interesting to see someone do a study of the anxiety of influence between the two.Of course I am a Burgess reader above all and think the later Greene work is a falling off his so called plateau, whereas Burgess never ´gets old.´
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
Hooey. That is le mot juste. There was a lot of hooey in Burgess, though hooey of a rather subtle kind.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
Much of the hooey was accepted uncritically by commentators, and to this the Lewis biography is an important corrective.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
The hooey, for instance, about being given a year to live, repeated innumerable times in books, articles and interviews. Lewis rightly terms 1959-60 'the pseudo-terminal year'.
@n2the1 Жыл бұрын
Greene's last word, made me laugh.
@DC-ts5fy4 жыл бұрын
And a good and happy Christmas to you! Mister Grigs!i hope old St Nick piles on the tea of every variety and taste and that you Sir discover an unknown never seen before Burgess work which brings you well deserved fame and scholarly acclaim you being the leading light among Burgess readers. I have finally got around to starting the Lewis biography of Saint Burgess and o dear he’s acerbic as hell! It looks to be a blood thirsty read!Back in a few days.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
DC, you are too kind. An unknown Burgess work which brings me acclaim and a great deal of money - yes, this is what I want!
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
The Lewis biography is thoroughly entertaining. Lewis treats his subject with all due scepticism, to put it mildly, and this is needed.
@duncandonitz4874 Жыл бұрын
The Quiet American -- great novel.
@pauljohnson29822 жыл бұрын
Pretentious....come now!
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
Who is pretentious: Greene, Burgess or Grigson, or all three?
@liammcooper4 жыл бұрын
lol happy christmas eve
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
Happy Christmas Eve to you too, sir.
@borderbioscope11804 жыл бұрын
gratias tibi
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for visiting In Search of Anthony Burgess.
@DC-ts5fy4 жыл бұрын
One more remark, did Burgess write anything at all about Philip Larkin?I’vet seen anything. Good cheer to you.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
A Google search yields this review of Larkin's biography (called 'Larkin: A Writer's Life') which is behind a paywall but opens thus (note: his gravestone says 'Philip Larkin, Writer'): 'That title is misleading, as is the identical declaration of trade on the poet’s tombstone. Larkin wrote, and wrote well, but he did not write for a living. Those of his generation (to my shock I wake to the realisation of senior membership) who call themselves writers practice all the genres and will write anything for money - even, like Auden, for a brace of cheap cigars. Larkin was a fine if costive poet, an eccentric reviewer of jazz records, and a very occasional literary essayist. He wrote two novels, as well as, under a female pseudonym, a couple of vaguely erotic school stories, and then found the needful narrative thrust too difficult. He saw with envy the skill and massive success of Lucky Jim, a novel of which he may be considered the hero, and he was nasty towards those of us who went abroad to write.' Larkin on Burgess (in a letter to Amis)- you will know doubt be familiar with this: ‘The whole of English Lit. at the moment is being written by Anthony Burgess. He reviews all new books except those by himself, and these latter include such jeux d’esprit as ‘A Shorter Finnegan’s Wake’ and so on…He must be a kind of Batman of contemporary letters....I suspect a Mediterranean background.'
@kelman727
4 жыл бұрын
Somewhere in Homage to QWERTYUIOP Burgess writes that he’s unsure whether Larkin and Heaney should be studied in British universities. He doesn’t say why. Burgess is correct about the average churchgoing British Catholic, however. Evelyn Waugh never accepted his fellow believers weren’t the aristos he wanted but navvies, clerks and pensioners.
@nickwyatt9498
3 жыл бұрын
@D C: If I remember rightly he reviewed either Larkin's Collected Poems or the Letters (don't have my files to hand) for the Literary Review. This was something of a coup for the LR as Burgess had fallen out with the editor, Auberon Waugh, after the latter had rubbished Abba Abba in the Evening Standard. Relations between the two were much more cordial after the Larkin piece.
@johnsweeney89342 ай бұрын
Burgess was jealous of Greene. Greene was a better writer and sold more books than Burgess. Greene wrote good screenplays which became classics, the 3rd man and the Fallen Idol to name but two. Burgess gave away the rights to A Clockwork Orange to Kubrick for 500 quid and it has made millions down the years on video, dvd and Internet streaming.
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Greene once described himself as a Protestant in the heart of the Church.So it goes, Burgess and Greene both grandstanding here ..!and yr voicing of old Greene’s letter was high jinks at its best. All that Irish hooey of Burgess’s is a bit hard to swallow.And the business about jealousy is interesting. Burgess so says the late Harold Bloom was a friend and Bloom admired his Joycean posture, this is a passing remark the critic made en passant.It would be more interesting to see someone do a study of the anxiety of influence between the two.Of course I am a Burgess reader above all and think the later Greene work is a falling off his so called plateau, whereas Burgess never ´gets old.´
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
Hooey. That is le mot juste. There was a lot of hooey in Burgess, though hooey of a rather subtle kind.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
Much of the hooey was accepted uncritically by commentators, and to this the Lewis biography is an important corrective.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
The hooey, for instance, about being given a year to live, repeated innumerable times in books, articles and interviews. Lewis rightly terms 1959-60 'the pseudo-terminal year'.
Greene's last word, made me laugh.
And a good and happy Christmas to you! Mister Grigs!i hope old St Nick piles on the tea of every variety and taste and that you Sir discover an unknown never seen before Burgess work which brings you well deserved fame and scholarly acclaim you being the leading light among Burgess readers. I have finally got around to starting the Lewis biography of Saint Burgess and o dear he’s acerbic as hell! It looks to be a blood thirsty read!Back in a few days.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
DC, you are too kind. An unknown Burgess work which brings me acclaim and a great deal of money - yes, this is what I want!
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
The Lewis biography is thoroughly entertaining. Lewis treats his subject with all due scepticism, to put it mildly, and this is needed.
The Quiet American -- great novel.
Pretentious....come now!
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
Who is pretentious: Greene, Burgess or Grigson, or all three?
lol happy christmas eve
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
Happy Christmas Eve to you too, sir.
gratias tibi
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for visiting In Search of Anthony Burgess.
One more remark, did Burgess write anything at all about Philip Larkin?I’vet seen anything. Good cheer to you.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
4 жыл бұрын
A Google search yields this review of Larkin's biography (called 'Larkin: A Writer's Life') which is behind a paywall but opens thus (note: his gravestone says 'Philip Larkin, Writer'): 'That title is misleading, as is the identical declaration of trade on the poet’s tombstone. Larkin wrote, and wrote well, but he did not write for a living. Those of his generation (to my shock I wake to the realisation of senior membership) who call themselves writers practice all the genres and will write anything for money - even, like Auden, for a brace of cheap cigars. Larkin was a fine if costive poet, an eccentric reviewer of jazz records, and a very occasional literary essayist. He wrote two novels, as well as, under a female pseudonym, a couple of vaguely erotic school stories, and then found the needful narrative thrust too difficult. He saw with envy the skill and massive success of Lucky Jim, a novel of which he may be considered the hero, and he was nasty towards those of us who went abroad to write.' Larkin on Burgess (in a letter to Amis)- you will know doubt be familiar with this: ‘The whole of English Lit. at the moment is being written by Anthony Burgess. He reviews all new books except those by himself, and these latter include such jeux d’esprit as ‘A Shorter Finnegan’s Wake’ and so on…He must be a kind of Batman of contemporary letters....I suspect a Mediterranean background.'
@kelman727
4 жыл бұрын
Somewhere in Homage to QWERTYUIOP Burgess writes that he’s unsure whether Larkin and Heaney should be studied in British universities. He doesn’t say why. Burgess is correct about the average churchgoing British Catholic, however. Evelyn Waugh never accepted his fellow believers weren’t the aristos he wanted but navvies, clerks and pensioners.
@nickwyatt9498
3 жыл бұрын
@D C: If I remember rightly he reviewed either Larkin's Collected Poems or the Letters (don't have my files to hand) for the Literary Review. This was something of a coup for the LR as Burgess had fallen out with the editor, Auberon Waugh, after the latter had rubbished Abba Abba in the Evening Standard. Relations between the two were much more cordial after the Larkin piece.
Burgess was jealous of Greene. Greene was a better writer and sold more books than Burgess. Greene wrote good screenplays which became classics, the 3rd man and the Fallen Idol to name but two. Burgess gave away the rights to A Clockwork Orange to Kubrick for 500 quid and it has made millions down the years on video, dvd and Internet streaming.