![]() ![]() Biswell says the novelist saw a wealth of opportunities arise after the release of director Stanley Kubrick's film, including an ill-fated attempt by the two men to make a movie about Napoleon. So why did The Clockwork Condition never see the light of day? ![]() It was found in a snowdrift of the late novelist's materials, stacks of papers and about 1,000 hours of recordings at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester during the long process of cataloguing. On Thursday, Manchester Metropolitan University, where Biswell teaches modern literature, announced that the professor had unearthed the long-lost manuscript. But alas, it never was - the manuscript was never published, and despite rumors of the project, it was never found either. ![]() Written under the name The Clockwork Condition, the work was to be a philosophical meditation on the very nature of modern life. So, according to Burgess scholar Andrew Biswell, the novelist got to work on a brief piece, which soon became a big piece, which eventually ballooned to 200 pages. Not long after the 1971 release of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, the novel's author, Anthony Burgess, received an offer from a publisher: Write a short follow-up to the novel, one that uses the word "Clockwork" in the title and brims with artwork, and we will make you a rich man. Anthony Burgess poses for a photograph in 1973, two years after the release of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange - and right around the time he was working on the recently unearthed manuscript. ![]()
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