Thank you so much for posting this. I'm sitting in my room drinking red wine and for the first time understanding life and its consequences. Brilliant, thank you.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for visiting In Search of Anthony Burgess!
@jimnewcombe7584
Жыл бұрын
I'm doing precisely the same - cheers!
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
@@jimnewcombe7584 Cheers Mr N.
@steverhodesvideos6244
Жыл бұрын
Well worth watching again and again.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
It certainly is. I like this bit (at 7:34): 'He was sent to University College hospital in London, and there, in a bedside ceremony, was married to Sonia Brownell, one of the loveliest girls I've ever known. She was a close friend of my first wife, who is now dead. Sonia is dead. We're all dying.' That last part of the passage sparkles. (I should point out, as Burgess's videobiographer, that Burgess of course never knew Brownell, even though he seems to hint that he might have bedded her; moreover, Brownell was not a close friend of Burgess's first wife. This is an instance of Burgess's mythomania. And does it matter? Not in the slightest. The passage is so memorable that any amount of fabulism is more than acceptable; indeed the endless fabrications are part of the fun and thrill of Burgess.)
@culturewarp
Жыл бұрын
I mention this in my book George Orwell on Screen, but have only ever seen it at the BFI before. Thanks for posting!
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
😃👍
@boldertash
7 ай бұрын
Oh how things have changed!
@Melvinshermen
Жыл бұрын
Rip Orwell and burgess
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
Rest in peace indeed. I'll second that.
@dengelke
Жыл бұрын
Wow - my favorite new release of 2023. Thank you. Also, this was aired on the Sci-Fi Channel?
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
It was indeed.
@stormlad
Жыл бұрын
Great stuff, thank you. But I wonder what Burgess might have said about 2023
@pfhastie
11 ай бұрын
Not this.
@MarcWiddowson
Жыл бұрын
If only Burgess, and indeed Orwell, were with us today. Burgess seems to regard 1984 as a thought experiment that failed to make contact with the real course of human affairs. I wonder whether he would come to the same conclusions if he had the perspective of the last 40 years, especially the last 20 years. 1984 was a brilliant work, a contemporary mythos, that gave us vital conceptual tools for understanding the operation of modern political systems. With Newspeak, for example, Orwell intuited the authoritarian instinct for language policing that is now reaching absurd heights with "American", "field" and even "the" itself now being declared offensive and off-limits.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
I strongly agree with the above. Modern Western élites, led by Klaus Schwab, have long ago abandoned any illusion that Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is a mere dystopian warning, and are now employing the novel straightforwardly as a guide and textbook for their activities.
@MarcWiddowson
Жыл бұрын
@@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess The Signet edition, describing the book as "A startling view of life in 1984: Forbidden love...Fear...Betrayal", presents the book as precisely what it is not, a sci-fi novel in the manner of an Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars-based saga.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
@@MarcWiddowson A precise negative indeed. Some of these American pulp versions of Orwell novels are hilarious. A favourite of mine is the Popular Library's 1952 (I think) edition of Orwell's 1934 novel Burmese Days. The blurb on the cover reads: 'SAGA OF JUNGLE HATE AND LUST ◼︎SHE KNEW ALL ABOUT LOVE! ◼She was seventeen, she was beautiful and she was for sale to the highest bidder. Ma Hla May was her Burmese name, but in any language she was perfect, and well worth the 200 rupees Flory had paid for her. All the way back to his jungle camp the Englishman felt the hot desire mount in him, but there was also a shyness in him, an apprehension about the girl's tender age and knowledge of men. Then they were in his room. The girl made herself ready. Flory stared at her in surprise. Moments later he got an even greater surprise from innocent-eyed Ma Hla May. FLORY HAD BOUGHT HIMSELF A WILDCAT!'
@MarcWiddowson
Жыл бұрын
@@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess Phwoar.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
@@MarcWiddowson 🥵🌶😅
@noctomd8517
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for uploading this! Burgess has taught me so much. I remember watching a video on your channel where AB was debating Andrea Dworkin. Suppose it got taken down? Do you still have it? It'd be terrific if you could send it my way. I would be eternally grateful.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
Greetings and thanks for visiting In Search of Anthony Burgess. Open Media's great KZitem channel have it. Enjoy! (Burgess gets progressively more inebriated as the evening wears on.) kzitem.info/news/bejne/1KmYzqSksndmf5g
@lionelmerbles9375
Жыл бұрын
It seems to be true now- or perhaps more like Burgess own vision in the book 1985
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
'Prophets never get their prophecies right,' as Burgess says in the video, though his '1985' novel's vision had prophetic elements: the corruption and degradation of youth, which becomes semi-criminal at best, drug-addled, violent, antinomian; the advance of Mohammedanism across the British society and polity to fill the vacuum left by the utterly debased Church; the country's endemic syndicalism, which although it seemed to recede during the Thatcher decade is today rather evident once again.
@lionelmerbles9375
Жыл бұрын
@@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess I’d rather forgotten about this rise of IS lam. It was the syndicalism and strikes I was recalling. Can’t help thinking that both then and now they seem conveniently coordinated to foment social unrest
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
@@lionelmerbles9375 Social unrest - that's for sure, Mr M. As the West re-tribalises, we are going to see some very deep unrest indeed.
@summess5567
3 ай бұрын
A good summary of the major issues of Orwell's satire on 'How things are done in politics and a (Oligarch) controlled media' - But all the more impressive as Burgess clearly and specifically outlines exactly what was to happen to England (possibly the UK) by 2020, after 14 years of Far-RightTory rule. We're there.
@briangarrett2427
Жыл бұрын
Excellent comb-over
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Жыл бұрын
A singular and pleasing coiffure indeed.
@Eire_Go_Deo
Жыл бұрын
My favourite description of Burgess' hair that I've seen in the comment section is "an aggressive hairstyle" 😂😂😂😂
@samsum3738
Ай бұрын
It feels like 1984 now , in 2024 . Everything seems to be topsy turvy . The dross rises to the top , truth is subjective , this never happened , that never happened , victimhood is only for certain groups , you must not say or write that , as someone is sure to be offended , etc etc.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
Ай бұрын
Such dross at the top, that is true. Incredible, the mediocrity of the élites, with their dismal view of human potentialities. And yes, on the universal lying, Orwell was prophetic indeed.
@CA-kp9lt
Жыл бұрын
Any luck on finding the other half of this program? Been scouring the internet with no luck Regardless thank you for uploading what you got🙌🏽
@Hobbitydobbity
Жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/k26mupejq2emdX4 This other video seems to show that it does in fact end here. Shame because it seems to end abruptly and I was hoping to hear more of Burgess’ amazing analysis. Maybe I’m wrong though?
@danielschaeffer1294
11 ай бұрын
Not surprising that Orwell was also the idol and model for another great literary critic and journalist - Christopher Hitchens. Imagine what a filmed conversation between Hitchens and Burgess would be like!
@hayleyanna2625
2 күн бұрын
That would have been brilliant!
@JamesHadfield-qz9rv
3 ай бұрын
Huge Thanks! have been a student of the Magnificent Anthony Burgess since viewing the equally brilliant Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange." For me, there has never been a Finer writer! His Combination of intellect and Humor is unequalled (Kurt Vonnegut, as well) Would Loved to have read his screenplay for "Clockwork" that was rejected by the tempermental Kubrick (Kuprick?) whom alledgedly wrote himself. it's possible, like the saying goes (anything's) I'm pretty sure it was mostly there from original, would love to read it, is it available? Anyway, Orwell's prophetic tome was tremendous and accurate (2024) top 10 or atleast 20! had once thought of going to england and seeing Burgess's Birthplace and where he would Drink, But the country has followed america's war/invasion addiction in lockstep,so that's been dismissed. Perhaps Basel, Switzerland where Mankind's Salvation was Created by the Genius chemist Albert Hoffman! thanks again, PEACE
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