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From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <sverifandom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:52:46 +0200

Från The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/11/unpublished-anthony-burgess-stories-manchester

"At least 20 unpublished stories by Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork
Orange, have been discovered by researchers sorting through his papers at a
research centre in Manchester, the city in which he was born.
The short stories, unproduced film and theatre scripts and hundreds of musical
compositions have emerged from the contents of three houses in London, Monaco
and Italy, bequeathed to the International Anthony Burgess Foundation after the
death of his widow, Liana, four years ago. Burgess died in 1993.
Among the archive are 50,000 books and 20,000 photographs, symphonies, poems
and unfinished or rejected scripts for television and film projects, including
lives of Atilla the Hun, Sigmund Freud and Michelangelo and a play about Harry
Houdini that he collaborated on with Orson Welles, another frustrated creator
of unproduced projects.
Will Carr, the deputy director of the research centre, said: "We are
discovering things all the time. There is a lot of stuff, and we are still
unpacking cardboard boxes.
"He was a good short fiction writer and, particularly early in his career, he
would write these things and then put them away and forget about them. They
have never been read or published. The stories are very good, very funny and
pungent. You can see how his writing developed."
...
Among the papers is the first completed music he wrote, his original screenplay
for A Clockwork Orange – rejected by the film's director, Stanley Kubrick, who
eventually wrote the script himself – an unpublished history of London, a
ballet score about the life of Shakespeare and a musical about Leon Trotsky.
There is even a script for another, unmade, Kubrick movie, which would have
been about Napoleon.
...
Andrew Biswell, the foundation's director and a Burgess biographer, told the
BBC: "A lot of the stories are very nasty and tending towards the supernatural
– a lot of ghost stories or stories about gods who come down to earth. The
amount of material which people don't know about I think heavily outweighs the
known. "

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