Anthony Burgess on violence in his novel "Orange mécanique"

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Anthony Burgess on violence in his novel "Orange mécanique"

Anthony Burgess on violence in his novel "Orange mécanique"

Bernard Pivot talks with the English writer Anthony BURGESS, prolific author of "L'orange mécanique", on the occasion of his visit to Paris . He questions her about the part of autobiography present in his book "L'orange mécanique". Anthony BURGESS speaks of the violence depicted in this book, of its subject: the importance of choice and free will, violence was necessary to represent a form of evil, "But if the State imposes upon us only the capacity of good, then this capacity of good is altogether wrong and more evil and worse than the desire to make Lemal according to its free will. He regrets that people only remember violence in Stanley Kubrick’s film.

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Publication date : 12 November 1973

Reference:
I21348452
Credits:
Producteur: Office National De Radiodiffusion Télévision Française   -   Director : Barma, Claude  -  Producer : Pivot, Bernard  -  Presenter : Pivot, Bernard  -  Participant : Burgess, Anthony
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Open The Quotes   -   Producteur: Office National De Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
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Turnkey

Reference:I21348452

Credits:Director : Barma, Claude-Producer : Pivot, Bernard-Presenter : Pivot, Bernard-Participant : Burgess, Anthony

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