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A Vision of Battlements
By Anthony Burgess
Buch von Anthony Burgess
Sprache: Englisch

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A Vision of Battlements has many claims on the attention of readers. The setting is Gibraltar, a place rarely visited by other novelists; the theme is not the frustration of a wartime garrison so much as the pain of looking forward to re-building and re-adjustment at the end of the war. But it is also gloriously comic. The hero is Richard Ennis, sergeant and musician. He is a young man of admirable intentions who never seems to hit it off with authority, especially his commanding officer, Major Muir. He lectures on Civics to the troops and, in spite of himself, becomes a popular left-wing hero. He carries on a liaison with a Gibraltarian widow when he should be on parade. He seems to be the instigator of a mutiny. Finally, he is accused by the Christian Brothers of trying to corrupt the young by giving them godless Spanish poetry. In spite of all this he remains an optimist, and he has a great capacity for love. Admirers of Anthony Burgess's work will find here not simply a typical Burgess hero but an anticipation of the good-hearted rebel of the 1950s.

Written in 1951 and out of print for more than fifty years, Anthony Burgess's first novel is a lost masterpiece. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this new edition restores the text of the novel to its original state, and explains its literary, historical and publishing contexts through a new introduction and a detailed set of notes.
A Vision of Battlements has many claims on the attention of readers. The setting is Gibraltar, a place rarely visited by other novelists; the theme is not the frustration of a wartime garrison so much as the pain of looking forward to re-building and re-adjustment at the end of the war. But it is also gloriously comic. The hero is Richard Ennis, sergeant and musician. He is a young man of admirable intentions who never seems to hit it off with authority, especially his commanding officer, Major Muir. He lectures on Civics to the troops and, in spite of himself, becomes a popular left-wing hero. He carries on a liaison with a Gibraltarian widow when he should be on parade. He seems to be the instigator of a mutiny. Finally, he is accused by the Christian Brothers of trying to corrupt the young by giving them godless Spanish poetry. In spite of all this he remains an optimist, and he has a great capacity for love. Admirers of Anthony Burgess's work will find here not simply a typical Burgess hero but an anticipation of the good-hearted rebel of the 1950s.

Written in 1951 and out of print for more than fifty years, Anthony Burgess's first novel is a lost masterpiece. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this new edition restores the text of the novel to its original state, and explains its literary, historical and publishing contexts through a new introduction and a detailed set of notes.
Über den Autor
Andrew Biswell is Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
A Vision of Battlements
Appendices:
1 Textual variants
2 Burgess's introductions, reviews and selection of contemporary responses
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781526122032
ISBN-10: 1526122030
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Burgess, Anthony
Redaktion: Biswell, Andrew
Hersteller: Manchester University Press
Maße: 264 x 141 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Anthony Burgess
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2017
Gewicht: 0,45 kg
preigu-id: 108647108
Über den Autor
Andrew Biswell is Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
A Vision of Battlements
Appendices:
1 Textual variants
2 Burgess's introductions, reviews and selection of contemporary responses
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781526122032
ISBN-10: 1526122030
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Burgess, Anthony
Redaktion: Biswell, Andrew
Hersteller: Manchester University Press
Maße: 264 x 141 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Anthony Burgess
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2017
Gewicht: 0,45 kg
preigu-id: 108647108
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