Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985
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Homage to QWERT YUIOP is a collection of essays by Anthony Burgess published in 1986. Most of the book is given to book or movie reviews, although there is an occasional essay interspersed with the rest.
Large tracts of the book deal mainly with the written word, especially a variety of linguistic reviews and papers, as well as a great many dictionaries, phrase books, books of quotations, and so forth. Burgess was widely known as a polyglot, and frequently includes linguistic anecdotes (etymology and so forth), from English, Russian, Greek, Latin and Malayan.
Another section of the book deals with the film business, including histories of a variety of film stars and early Hollywood producers, about many of which Burgess had strong opinions.
another large section of the book is devoted to reviews of biographies of famous authors, including Dickens, Beckett and Hemingway. The book finishes with reviews of literature by some well known novelists, including HG Wells and Kingsley Amis. This section is worthwhile because Burgess himself was a biographer of such literary greats as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and D.H. Lawrence, as well as being a prodigious author of novels and short stories.
The book displays the tremendous amount of information Burgess had accumulated by the age of 66, especially concerning geography, travel, cultures, languages and literature.
- (1986) ISBN 0349104409
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