Abba Abba: By Anthony Burgess

ABBA ABBA is one of Anthony Burgess's most original works, combining fiction, poetry and translation. A product of his time in Italy in the early 1970s, this delightfully unconventional book is part historical novel, part poetry collection, as well as a meditation on translation and the generating of literature by one of Britain's most inventive post-war authors. Set in Papal Rome in the winter of 1820-21, Part One recreates the consumptive John Keats's final months in the Eternal City and imagines his meeting the Roman dialect poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. Pitting Anglo-Italian cultures and sensibilities against each other, Burgess creates a context for his highly original versions of 71 sonnets by Belli, which feature in Part Two.

This new edition includes extra material by Burgess, along with an introduction and notes by Paul Howard, Fellow in Italian Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor's Introduction
Text of ABBA ABBA
Endnotes
Appendices
Notes

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Paul Howard is a Senior Teaching Associate in Italian in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol

Zusammenfassung

Anthony Burgess’s ‘hybrid’ novel has been out of print in the UK for almost twenty years. Paul Howard’s new edition restores the original text and demystifies Burgess’s engagement with his Italian and English sources. -- .

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anthony Burgess, Burgess Anthony, Paul Howard
• Mitarbeit: Andrew Biswell (Herausgeber), Paul Howard (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781526138033
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3803-3
• Seiten: 312
• Serien: Irwell Edition of the Works of; The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess; The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess; Irwell Edition of the Works of
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form