![]() Biswell says the novelist saw a wealth of opportunities arise after the release of director Stanley Kubrick's film, including an ill-fated attempt by the two men to make a movie about Napoleon. So why did The Clockwork Condition never see the light of day? It was found in a snowdrift of the late novelist's materials, stacks of papers and about 1,000 hours of recordings at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester during the long process of cataloguing. ![]() On Thursday, Manchester Metropolitan University, where Biswell teaches modern literature, announced that the professor had unearthed the long-lost manuscript. But alas, it never was - the manuscript was never published, and despite rumors of the project, it was never found either. ![]() Written under the name The Clockwork Condition, the work was to be a philosophical meditation on the very nature of modern life. So, according to Burgess scholar Andrew Biswell, the novelist got to work on a brief piece, which soon became a big piece, which eventually ballooned to 200 pages. Not long after the 1971 release of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, the novel's author, Anthony Burgess, received an offer from a publisher: Write a short follow-up to the novel, one that uses the word "Clockwork" in the title and brims with artwork, and we will make you a rich man. ![]() Anthony Burgess poses for a photograph in 1973, two years after the release of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange - and right around the time he was working on the recently unearthed manuscript. ![]()
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