Final essay inglese 2. Questo sito utilizza cookie, anche di terze parti. Se vuoi saperne di pi. Chiudendo questo banner. The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess . Dick's more goofball novels (without the goofball inventiveness of PKD's futuristic concepts). In the future, a profoundly overpopulated earth contains a placid, . Tristram Foxe, a history teacher, and his wife, Beatrice- Joanna, have just lost their infant son. Beatrice- Joanna is also having an affair with Tristram's brother Derek, a government official who pretends to be gay in order to climb the ladder of success. But the overpopulation, combined with a worldwide blight, causes unrest, which in turn causes the government to begin enforcing its suggestions as laws. Just when Tristram finds out about his wife's and brother's affair, he gets caught up in a food- shortage riot outside his building and is arrested. While he is in prison, the government completes its shift from what Burgess calls the Pelagian Phase to an Intermediate Phase (on its way, eventually, to the Augustinian Phase), wherein the previously liberal government becomes a repressive dictatorship. The once- placid world gives way to police roundups, rampant cannibalism, a resurgence of Christianity, and war. Billed as a satire, I found The Wanting Seed to be plenty absurd, but not particularly funny. Fifty years ago (the book was written in 1. I have no doubt that much of the . That is, they would be heterosexual if it were up to them, but because of society's strictures, they are essentially forced to ACT gay in that stereotypical, homophobic way, with lots of mincing around, simpering, etc.- -in addition to having sex with members of the same sex. Of course, in Burgess's view, clearly, all homosexuality is unnatural, thus making the use of the word ? Did the ancient Spartans sashay around with limp wrists, saying things like ? Burgess was a Catholic, so his limited vision is not entirely surprising, but it still reveals his serious misunderstanding of how sexual attraction to one's own gender works, not to mention his inability to conceive of a new way in which men of the future, who have sex with other men, might act. In the end, Burgess used homosexuality as nothing more than a useful shorthand for showing how a Godless society has ruined itself. As such, The Wanting Seed is embarrassingly dated, not to mention fairly unbelievable. And this unbelievability extends to other parts of the novel as well. When the civilization devolves, quite quickly, from a sterile, basically vegetarian society to a cannibalistic one, no one (including the main character) seems to have an even initial reaction of disgust to breaking one of the fundamental taboos of Western culture. I am reminded of the sci- fi novel Lucifer's Hammer in which a band of survivors after a worldwide catastrophe engage in cannibalism as a way of acclimating themselves to it, in case it becomes an absolute necessity as the world crumbles around them. But no one's happy about it, and most of the members of the group are pretty much forced to partake, because the thought of doing it voluntarily is, at first, too repellant. Not so in The Wanting Seed, where everyone seems pretty much OK with it (even enthusiastic about it) from the start. Speaking of cannibalism, I found it equally unlikely that Tristram, after having escaped prison and trying to track down his wife during a brief period of lawlessness, is taken in by a small town of cannibals and treated generously. When he first arrived, I naturally believed that they would try to lure him in with their smiles and then eat him. But no, they were happy to feed him and send him on his way, which leads me to wonder where, exactly, they're getting all this human meat they're eating. Would they rather eat their own friends, family, and neighbors than some drifter passing through? I'm no cannibal, so maybe I just don't get it, but that seems unlikely to me. The one part I found entirely believable is the final section, in which the unsuspecting and gullible are conscripted into a newly organized army (as wars had been a thing of the distant past) and forced to fight one's own countrymen, unknowingly, as a way of generating vast amounts of human meat for the remaining population. A sinister concept that rings true in an era where wars are already waged for ignominious reasons. For this (and for Burgess's usual lexical dexterity) I give the book two stars instead of one. Uno spazio aggiornato con regolarit Talk:A Clockwork Orange/Archive 1 This is an archive of. One website says the phrase was in use in the 1920s. The 1971 film was translated as 'Arancia meccanica'.Anthony Burgess - Arancia meccanica - . Incl KEYGEN & ACTIVATOR - Convert Word DOC DOCX And DOCM To PDF Files Jun 2011 710 KB 1 File 0 Glossary of Anthony Burgess's use of Nadsat in his famous A. Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd. Flag for inappropriate content. Studi di Salerno In questo contributo verr. Burgess A., 1996, Arancia meccanica, Torino. Arancia Meccanica di Anthony Burgess?
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