This paper examines the Italian translation of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, focusing in particular on the language of narration, ‘Nadsat’. This invented argot, based on English but including a good deal of Russian vocabulary, contributes to the novel’s grotesque humour and to the narrator’s manipulation of the readers. In Floriana Bossi’s Italian translation, the Russian influence on Nadsat is almost completely missing; she draws instead on Italian and dialectal vocabulary.

This results in a considerable change to what in the source text is a very foreign-sounding argot. I investigate the effect that Bossi’s approach has on the humour of the narration and on the audience’s potential involvement with the main character. Notions of violent language and the violence of translation are discussed, as is the extent to which Bossi’s approach is shaped by linguistic incompatibility, target-culture poetics, and ideologies about the role of the translator. Links and resources URL: BibTeX key: search on.

How to review an infamous book about which so much has already been said? By avoiding reading others’ thoughts until I’ve written mine.There are horrors in this book, but there is beauty too, and so much to think about. Rukovodstvo po remontu i ekspluatacii nissan aljmera tino. The ends of the book justify the means of its execution, even if the same is not true of what happens in the storyOK vs FILMI saw the film first, and read the book shortly afterwards.

Usually a bad idea, but in this case, being familiar with the plot and the Nadsat slang made [.]. In 1960 Anthony Burgess was 43 and had written 4 novels and had a proper job teaching in the British Colonial Service in Malaya and Brunei. Then he had a collapse and the story gets complicated. But I like the first cool version AB told, which was that he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and given a year to live. Since as you know he lived a further 33 years, we may conclude the doctors were not entirely correct. However - the doctor tells you you have a year to live - what do you d [.].

'What's it going to be then, eh?' A linguistic adventure, O my brothers.

I had seen the Kubrick film and so reading the novella was on the list. I very much enjoyed it, was surprised to learn that American publishers and Kubrick had omitted the crucial last chapter that provides some moral denouement to the ultra-violence.As disturbingly good as this is, one aspect that always comes back to me is Burgess' creation of and use of the Nadsat language. This provides color and mystery to the narrativ [.].

In the near future, in an Utopian socialist country, England, where everyone has to work ( except the ill or old), whether the job makes any sense, or not, a group of teenagers like to party without limits, at night. Alex, the leader, George 2nd in command, Pete the most sane and the big dim, Dim, he's good with his boots, fun loving kids. Your humble narrator, Alex, will tell this story my brothers First they see an ancient man, leaving the library carrying books, very suspicious, nobody goes t [.]. A favourite of my late teens, still a favourite now.