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Bezig met laden... You've Had Your Time (1990)door Anthony Burgess
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) dbsovereign | Jan 26, 2016 |  In the early and middle decades of the twentieth century, a fantasy was propagated about the good life to be had by moving from the drab country that one lives in, to an exotic climate in a more southern country. Greece, France, Italy, Spain, North African countries, Asian countries, were all prime destinations that you heard about from backpacker types who were able to escape from their everyday existence. Or from slightly more established types with a young family and who were able to have a bohemian existence elsewhere (e.g., Mordecai Richler). The accounts themselves usually did talk about the good and bad, without ignoring the tricky parts of a foreign land. But if I can speak for both myself and for other readers for whom the same thing may have happened, as soon as I closed the book after reading the last page, my fantasy life took over, and I imagined living somewhere else as the ideal way of abandoning all of my current commitments here at home, including family. Of course Anthony Burgess would have never had any truck with such goofy ideas. He was never one to get carried away with silly fantasies. Not to say that as an artist, he did not understand the importance of fantasy as a part of everyday life. But I would say that by simply recounting both the good parts and the bad parts of his sojourn away from another country that was getting on his nerves--Great Britain--he was able to get a taste of what Maltese bureaucratic nightmares were like, as a change of pace form English bureaucratic nightmares. 1  libraryhermit | Mar 1, 2010 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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After returning from a trip to Brunei, Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles. It is the life of a man desperate to earn a living through the written word. He finds at first that writing brings little success, and later that success, and the obligations it brings, interfere with his writing - especially of fiction. There were vast Hollywood projects destined never to be made, novels the critics snarled at, journalism that scandalised the morally scrupulous. There is the éclat of A Clockwork Orange (and the consequent calls for Burgess to comment on violent atrocities), the huge success - after a long barren period - of Earthly Powers. There is a terrifying first marriage, his description of which is both painful and funny. His second marriage - and the discovery that he has a four-year-old son - changes his life dramatically, and he and Liana escape to the Mediterranean, for an increasingly European life. With this marriage comes the triumphant rebirth of sex, creative energy and travel - to America, to Australia and all over Europe. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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