Vision of Battlements - By Anthony Burgess

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Biswell is Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation Klappentext A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid . The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses , a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess. Zusammenfassung A new edition of Anthony Burgess’s first novel, set in Gibraltar during the Second World War. Loosely based on Virgil’s Aeneid, the book describes the anti-heroic army career of Richard Ennis, a thwarted composer. The introduction and notes describe the publishing history and the autobiographical context of this lost masterpiece. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction A Vision of Battlements Appendices:1 Textual variants2 Burgess's introductions, reviews and selection of contemporary responses

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Biswell, Anthony Burgess, Burgess Anthony
• Assisted by: Andrew Biswell (Editor), Biswell Andrew (Editor), Paul Wake (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781526122032
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2203-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: 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
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 2000, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary