Abba Abba: by Anthony Burgess (The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess) - Hardcover

Burgess, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526138034 ISBN 13: 9781526138033

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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. -- .

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Review

may be the best thing Burgess has so far done --Paul Scott, Country Life

a dazzling display of all Burgess s tricks...a centaur of a book, so strange and wonderful that a lesser writer than Anthony Burgess could maintain his reputation on it alone --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Anthony Burgess (25th February 1917-22nd November 1993) was one of the UK's leading academics and most respected literary figures. A prolific author, during his writing career Burgess found success as a novelist, critic, composer, playwright, screenwriter, travel writer, essayist, poet and librettist, as well as working as a translator, broadcaster, linguist and educationalist. His fiction includes Nothing Like the Sun, a recreation of Shakespeare's love-life, but he is perhaps most famous for the complex and controversial novel A Clockwork Orange, exploring the nature of evil. Born in Manchester, he spent time living in Southeast Asia, the USA and Mediterranean Europe as well as in England, until his death in 1993. Paul Howard is a Senior Teaching Associate in Italian in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1526138034
• ISBN 13: 9781526138033
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Howard Paul