Hortense Chabrier Libros

Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, is regarded as one of the most original and daring writers in the English language. His work is illuminated by a dazzling imagination, by a gift for character and plot, by a talent for surprise. In Earthly Powers , Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power — Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career — one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile — their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.

La historia del nadsat-adolescente Alex y sus tres drugos-amigos en un mundo de crueldad y destrucción. Alex tiene, según Burgess, "los principales atributos humanos; amor a la agresión, amor al lenguaje, amor a la belleza. Pero es joven y no ha entendido aún la verdadera importancia de la libertad, la que disfruta de un modo tan violento. En cierto sentido vive en el Edén, y sólo cuando cae (como en verdad le ocurre, desde una ventana) parece capaz de llegar a transformase en un verdadero ser humano".