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A Clockwork Orange ’s ingenious use of language is one of the book’s defining characteristics. Beginning with the novel’s arresting opening, readers are inundated with “nadsat” slang, the part-Cockney, part-Russian patois Alex uses to narrate the story. Alex’s language, like the novel as a whole, is a chaotic amalgam of high and low.
192 pages (hardback edition) 176 pages (paperback edition) ISBN. 978-0-434-09800-2. OCLC. 4205836. A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novella by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence.
- Anthony Burgess
- 1962
Published in 1962, Anthony Burgess's A Clock-work Orange is set in the future and narrated by fifteen-year-old Alex in Nadsat—a language invented by Burgess and comprised of bits of Russian, English, and American slang, rhyming words, and "gypsy talk". The British edition of the novel contains three sections divided into seven chapters, for a ...
Aug 2, 2017 · Natali is a self-professed language geek based in the UK. Fluent in Greek, English, French, Spanish and Italian (and Geordie), she immerses herself in Scandi-crime dramas and random travel experiences. When not bending the rules of linguistics, she also does yoga. The language from a Clockwork Orange might sound like nothing you've heard before ...
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May 26, 2020 · A Clockwork Orange: plot summary. A Clockwork Orange is set at some indeterminate point in the future, and is narrated by Alex, a fifteen-year-old boy who is the head of a gang of criminals. Alex and his friends all speak a kind of slang, called Nadsat, which Alex uses to narrate the events of the novel. One evening, Alex and his ‘droogs ...
Language English. Time and place written 1958–1961, England. Date of first publication 1962. Publisher W.W. Norton & Company. Narrator Alex narrates A Clockwork Orange immediately after the events of the novel. Point of view The narrator speaks in the first person, subjectively describing only what he sees, hears, thinks, and experiences.
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A Clockwork Orange is narrated in past tense. About the Title Burgess wrote that A Clockwork Orange 's title comes from Cockney slang, "as queer [strange] as a clockwork orange," meaning something that is unnatural or bizarre, like the combination of an orange—something that grows—and a machine.
