Last year, fans celebrated the 50th anniversary of the ultra-violent novella A Clockwork Orange. Author Anthony Burgess said the work should have been forgotten, but because of Stanley Kubrick's film, it seemed destined to live on. It's the story of the barbaric passions of a British teen and the state's attempt to impose a mechanistic morality over his free-will. Friday, we're rebroadcasting our conversation with the scholar Andrew Biswell about A Clockwork Orange and about why Burgess said the point of the book has been widely misunderstood. (Rebroadcast)
The Salt Lake Film Society is screening Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange this weekend at the Tower Theatre in Salt Lake City. It shows at 11 p.m. on Friday June 7th and Saturday June 8th, and again at noon on Sunday June 10th. For more details, follow this link.
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- Andrew Biswell is Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, England, and the author of The Real Life of Anthony Burgess.He also served as editor for the new "restored text" of Burgess' A Clockwork Orange [Amazon/Indiebound].
