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A grand and tragi-comic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte, this novel unteases and reweaves Napoleon's life - from the first great days of his campaigns in 1796 to exile and death on St. Helena a quarter of a century later. Burgess' Bonaparte is a cuckold, afflicted with heartburn and halitosis while enacting a wily seduction of Tsar Alexander, conquering Egypt and crowning himself Emperor.
Witty, sardonic, intellectual, Napoleon Symphony is Burgess at his most challenging and inventive. In creating a novel based on a musical form, Burgess is playing with structure, from the grand, ambitious shape of the novel itself, through to the finer composition of each sentence.
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Review:
Essentially this book is not so much about Napoleon as about Anthony Burgess writing a novel. As such it has many pleasures. All of the Burgess embellishments are here, and they sing alluringly each to each (New York Times)
One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers (Irish Times)
One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation (The Times)
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One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers (Irish Times)
One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation (The Times)
Burgess' ambitious, experimental novel about Napoleon Bonaparte
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1846689171
- ISBN 13 9781846689178
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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