BIOLOGY 3XL3 Chapter Notes -Colin Macinnes, Rhyming Slang, Jargon
28 Nov 2014
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Kingsley amis gives his seal of approval to a cheerfully horrific new novel from anthony burgess. I acclaim anthony burgess"s new novel as the curiosity of the day. That is the extent of its resemblance to anything much else, though a hasty attempt at orientation might suggest colin macinnes and the prole parts of 1984 as distant reference points. Fifteen-year-old alex pursues a zealously delinquent career through: the last decade of the present century, robbing, punching, kicking, slashing, raping, murdering, going to jail etc. That would be a pity, because soon you pick up the language and begin to see, as the action develops, that this speech not only gives the book its curious flavour, but also fits in with its prevailing mood. This is a sort of cheerful horror which many british readers, adventurous or not, will not be up to stomaching.
