Burgess interviewed in ’71

Burgess on

• that Friday worn-out feeling after a week of hard work
• the game of American football
• his house in Princeton
• how to deal with the aggrieved parent of a student with poetic aspirations
• Elizabethan English
• how Shakespeare spoke
• being of Irish extraction
• being a northerner
• Shakespeare’s genius
• how his pianoplaying father got the sack after an unfortunate incident at the cinema
• trying to be a composer
• his late start as a writer
• the problem of Künstler Schuld
• the creative demon
• a moose and a mouse
• contrasts between London and New York
• his novel A Clockwork Orange
• the vigour of the American language