Anthony Burgess Quotes From His Famous Enderby Novel

ANTHONY BURGESS (1917-1993). Burgess was a British author best remembered for A Clockwork Orange.TLS. 1pg. 9 x 6. November 2, 1971. No place. A typed letter signed Anthony Burgess to Ted Levine: Forgive this delay, not my fault since your letter has only just reached me. I fear that I may be too late to give you what you want, and anyway I'm always embarrassed by that sort of self-laudation, even minorly. But here is a specimen from ENDERBY: ...seeing the sea, as always, as a clever green child that could draw a straight line for hand... The clumsiness is deliberate, to take away any hints of glibness. A poet is viewing the sea, so the image is not pretentious. The anthropomorphic morphic approach - personification, if you like - is right for a man who, like the poet-hero, sees no difference between human beings and the inanimate world: all are to be kept out, as potential interferers with the poetic process, but they are, nevertheless, drawn into that process. The letter is on his letterhead and is in fine condition.