When ‘Clockwork Orange’ Author Anthony Burgess Wrote a Slang Dictionary
fan of Anthony Burgess make out that the famed English author loved playing with language . While write his originative novelA Clockwork Orange(1962)—which director Stanley Kubrick later adapted intoa 1971 film — Burgess invent a adolescent slangcalledNadsat , which he peppered with anglicized Russian word . And more than 20 years after Burgess ’s death , archivist in Manchester , England , rediscoveredanother mark of his fascination with speech : an unfinishedslangdictionary ....