A Clockwork Orange (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Aggeler, Geoffrey, Anthony Burgess: The Artist as Novelist, University of Alabama Press, 1979.

  Aggeler examines Burgess's books thematically. Burgess read and commented on Aggeler's book as it was being written.

• Burgess, Anthony, Little Wilson and Big God, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987.

  Burgess's autobiography is entertaining and illuminating, and well worth reading. He discusses his attitudes towards the reception both of his novel, A Clockwork Orange, and its film adaptation.

• Hammer, Stephanie Barbe, "Conclusion: Resistance, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Failure in Modern Criminal Literature," in The Sublime Crime: Fascination, Failure and Form in Literature of the Enlightenment, Southern Illinois University Press, 1994, pp. 154-74.

  Hammer discusses A Clockwork Orange as an example of criminal literature.

• Pritchard, William H., "The Novels of Anthony Burgess," in Massachusetts Review, Vol. 7, No. 3. Summer 1996.

  Pritchard explores the reader's feelings towards Alex and notes the novel's ability to almost make the reader feel relieved when Alex returns to his violent self.

• Tilton, John, Cosmic Satire in the Contemporary Novel, Bucknell University Press, 1977.

  Tilton's chapter on A Clockwork Orange explores the novel's main theme of free choice and suggests that Alex illustrates the belief that moral oppression violates individual civil rights as well as spiritual existence.