1985

With his trademark bold style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to 1984 in one book. The first part is a penetrating analysis through a series of dialogues, parodies and essays, where Burgess focuses a new light on what he called "an apocalyptic codex with our worst fears". The second part is Burgess's own vision, written in 1978. In it, he strings together the present and the future to describe a state where life is something that is suffered rather than lived. Together, both parts constitute the most peculiar work of one of the most illustrious, imaginative and gifted writers of the 20th century.