Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
To launch a new series of events themed around utopia and dystopia, we are pleased to announce the first of our ‘Dystopian Dialogues’.
The award-winning writer Adam Roberts joins Andrew Biswell for a conversation about Anthony Burgess and Dystopia.
Burgess writes in The Novel Now that many of the famous twentieth-century literary dystopias were responding to H.G. Wells and A Modern Utopia. Beginning with Wells, the discussion will include A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed and 1985.
Adam Roberts (pictured) is the author of The Black Prince, a novel based on a film script by Anthony Burgess. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has published eighteen novels and many other works, including non-fiction books about J.R.R. Tolkien and H.G. Wells.
This event took place on Zoom on 5 May 2021, and we're delighted to present this on the modern dystopia that is YouTube.
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If you'd like to make a donation to the Burgess Foundation, you can do so at anthonyburgess.org/donate/
Anthony Burgess on Twitter:
twitter.com/anthonyburgess
Anthony Burgess on Facebook:
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Anthony Burgess on Instagram:
instagram.com/misterenderby
To launch a new series of events themed around utopia and dystopia, we are pleased to announce the first of our ‘Dystopian Dialogues’.
The award-winning writer Adam Roberts joins Andrew Biswell for a conversation about Anthony Burgess and Dystopia.
Burgess writes in The Novel Now that many of the famous twentieth-century literary dystopias were responding to H.G. Wells and A Modern Utopia. Beginning with Wells, the discussion will include A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed and 1985.
Adam Roberts (pictured) is the author of The Black Prince, a novel based on a film script by Anthony Burgess. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has published eighteen novels and many other works, including non-fiction books about J.R.R. Tolkien and H.G. Wells.
This event took place on Zoom on 5 May 2021, and we're delighted to present this on the modern dystopia that is YouTube.
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If you'd like to make a donation to the Burgess Foundation, you can do so at anthonyburgess.org/donate/
Anthony Burgess on Twitter:
twitter.com/anthonyburgess
Anthony Burgess on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/anthonyburge...
Anthony Burgess on Instagram:
instagram.com/misterenderby
