The End of the World News
by Anthony Burgess · first published 1982
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…my school's library, and fell in love. They're all so vastly different and weird and yet they made for great reading: - The Wanting Seed: sci-fi about an overpopulated planet, full of dry humor - The End of the World News: a musical about Trotsky's final days in Mexico, mixed with Freud and an Earth-destroying comet. Supremely weird but entertaining - Tremor of Intent: Ian Fleming-style spy novel He also wrote books…
on “Anthony Burgess at 100: unearthly powers” ↗My recollection is that the foreword to The End of the World News said essentially that it wasn't worth writing well any more. But I read that thirty-five years ago or so, and may have it wrong. Burgess's autobiographies, Little Wilson and Big God and You've Had Your…
on “Alastair Morgan talks to Anthony Burgess (1983)” ↗