In Search of Anthony Burgess
Loading...
55
subscribers
48,501
video views
Uploaded videos
1-10 of 367-
In Search of Anthony Burgess: Malta — As randy as a fenech
geoffreygrigson
3 views
Extract from the 1971 Anthony Burgess novel 'Motherfucker' or MF or M/F or M.F.
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL06999ED425F1BF9B&feature=view_all
-
In Search of Burgess: Luqa — the Ganymede's lip-farting farewell
geoffreygrigson
14 views
Luqa airport. A highly inebriated Geoffrey Enright, Toomey's secretary, utterly disgraces himself in front of large numbers of passengers and staff.
Extract from the An...
-
In Search of Anthony Burgess: Mellieħa — There is no God but Allah
geoffreygrigson
11 views
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mellieħa and sacristy, and Mellieħa Parish Church, dedicated to the Birth of Our Lady.
'...these Maltese Christians said, just like Moslems, th...
-
In Search of Anthony Burgess: Valletta (2/2)
geoffreygrigson
10 views
Extract from 'You've Had Your Time': 'D.H. Lawrence, packing his "kitchenino" for the Sardinian trip, had made sandwiches of "good British bacon from Malta". Eggs-and-bacon...
-
In Search of Anthony Burgess: Valletta (1/2)
geoffreygrigson
23 views
St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta. Anthony Burgess claimed he was quitting England for Malta because he needed the Mediterranean light to write. He wrote in the 'Listener' m...
-
In Search of Anthony Burgess: Malta — what lured him (2/3)
geoffreygrigson
21 views
Anthony Burgess claimed he was quitting England for Malta because he needed the Mediterranean light to write. He wrote in the 'Listener' magazine at the end of 1968: 'I fin...
-
In Search of Burgess: Malta — Wrath of the Ganymede
geoffreygrigson
23 views
Geoffrey Enright, Toomey's secretary and catamite in the Anthony Burgess novel 'Earthly Powers', gives vent to certain forthright opinions on Malta. He greatly preferred Ta...
-
In Search of Anthony Burgess: Lija — Triq il-Kbira (1/2)
geoffreygrigson
25 views
Burgess and his second wife Liana lived at No.168 Triq il-Kbira (Big Street) from 1968 to 1970, though with frequent absences to undertake tours abroad.
Playlist: http://w...
-
In Search of Anthony Burgess: Lija — The Maltese Phantom (3/3)
geoffreygrigson
20 views
The haunted house at 168 Main Street, Lija. Burgess explains in his autobiography that he discovered shortly after buying the house (thought to have been built in 1798) tha...
-
In Search of Anthony Burgess: Lija — Triq il-Kbira (2/2)
geoffreygrigson
28 views
168 Triq il-Kbira (Big Street), where Burgess and his second wife Liana lived from 1968 to 1970, though with frequent absences to undertake tours abroad.
Extract from 'You...
Advertisement
About In Search of Anthony Burgess
more
less
Play all(367)