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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 also 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.
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Our Babel explained by Brilliant Burgess,
By Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Language Made Plain, (Paperback)
Burgess says his aim in the book is " to persuade the ordinary reader to be interested in those aspects of language which are closest to his own needs, especially the need of finding a painless way into the learning of foreign tongues'. But in the course of this work he gives a general analysis of Language, of its sounds in action and sounds in space, of its bangs ,hisses and buzzes, of its flutes and lutes, of the adventures of an alphabet, of its words, sentences, and of the science of linguistics.He also in the second part of the book talks about the learning of foreign languages, language families, the tongue of the British, Learning Teutonic Languages, learning the daughter languages of Latin, learning Malay, creating artificial languages which will 'break Babel'. This book is rich with information on many different aspects of our use of language, and is written with the usual Burgessian brilliance.
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