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  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I hope they re-publish The Worm and the Ring. I understand there's been some work done by The Irwell Edition to that effect.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    I hope they re-publish The Worm and the Ring. I understand there's been some work done by The Irwell Edition to that effect.

    I've heard of that book before. What was the reason for the censorship?
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,805
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    I hope they re-publish The Worm and the Ring. I understand there's been some work done by The Irwell Edition to that effect.

    I've heard of that book before. What was the reason for the censorship?

    Burgess was a teacher in a grammar school and used some of his experience and environment as a backdrop. The novel is meant to be a rewritten version of Wagner's Ring Cycle, but in an English school. One of the staff, Gwendoline Bustin, claimed that one character was based on her. Since her novel alter ego had an affair with the Burgess character, something she claimed never happened IRL, she claimed defamation of character and won in court. So the novel was withdrawn. The thing is, nobody cared then, and nobody would care now.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    edited May 27 Posts: 5,079
    It saddens me that Anthony Burgess never got to publish a Bond novel. TSWLM treatment or original. He clearly had the imagination for it. IFP hiring him would have been a unique but safe choice.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    edited May 29 Posts: 15,805
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    It saddens me that Anthony Burgess never got to publish a Bond novel. TSWLM treatment or original. He clearly had the imagination for it. IFP hiring him would have been a unique but safe choice.

    He sort of did with Tremor of Intent, although this was an anti Bond novel, with lots of influence by Graham Greene. On a side note, Miss Devi would make one hell of an evil Bond girl in a film.

    I can only speculate, but my bet is that in a Bond novel by Burgess, Malaysia would have been featured heavily.
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