A real horrorshow book
22nd November 2013
Anthony Burgess died 20 years ago today, on 22 November 1993. I think that happened to be the year I also read A Clockwork Orange for the first time. As I was studying Russian, I was particularly drawn by Nadtsat, Burgess’s invented teenage slang (from the Russian suffix -nadtsat’, ‘-teen’): ‘horrorshow’ (from khorosho) for ‘good’; […]
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