12 May 2011
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Cache of unpublished Anthony Burgess short stories discovered
At least 20 unpublished short stories by Anthony Burgess have been found in the Clockwork Orange author’s archive in Manchester. ...
At least 20 unpublished short stories by Anthony Burgess have been discovered in the Clockwork Orange author’s archive in Manchester.
The short stories are among the contents of Burgess’s three houses in London, Monaco and Italy which were bequeathed to the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester after the death of his widow Liana in 2007.
The archive contains 50,000 books and manuscripts of symphonies, poems and scripts for television or film projects, including a collaboration with Orson Welles, which were either unfinished or rejected. The original screenplay for A Clockwork Orange, which was rejected by the film’s director Stanley Kubrick, is in the archive, along with one for an unmade Kubrick film about Napoleon.
Burgess died in 1993. During his lifetime, he published 33 novels and also wrote criticism and screenplays, worked as a broadcaster, and composed music.
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation intends to publish a collection of the unknown short stories in 2012.
Website: www.anthonyburgess.org
The short stories are among the contents of Burgess’s three houses in London, Monaco and Italy which were bequeathed to the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester after the death of his widow Liana in 2007.
The archive contains 50,000 books and manuscripts of symphonies, poems and scripts for television or film projects, including a collaboration with Orson Welles, which were either unfinished or rejected. The original screenplay for A Clockwork Orange, which was rejected by the film’s director Stanley Kubrick, is in the archive, along with one for an unmade Kubrick film about Napoleon.
Burgess died in 1993. During his lifetime, he published 33 novels and also wrote criticism and screenplays, worked as a broadcaster, and composed music.
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation intends to publish a collection of the unknown short stories in 2012.
Website: www.anthonyburgess.org
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