Editing A Clockwork Orange (novel) (section)

==Reception==
===Initial response===
''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' review was positive, and described the book as "entertaining&nbsp;... even profound".<ref>Chitty, Susan. "Is That the Lot?" Sunday Telegraph, 13 May 1962, p. 9.</ref> [[Kingsley Amis]] in ''[[The Observer]]'' acclaimed the novel as "cheerful horror", writing "Mr Burgess has written a fine farrago of outrageousness, one which incidentally suggests a view of juvenile violence I can't remember having met before".<ref>Amis, Kingsley [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2012/may/13/kingsley-amis-a-clockwork-orange-review From the Observer archive, 13 May 1962: A Clockwork Orange reviewed] The Guardian</ref> [[Malcolm Bradbury]] wrote "All of Mr Burgess's powers as a comic writer, which are considerable, have gone into the rich language of his inverted Utopia. If you can stomach the horrors, you'll enjoy the manner". [[Roald Dahl]] called it "a terrifying and marvellous book".<ref name="critics">{{cite web |url=https://www.anthonyburgess.org/a-clockwork-orange/a-clockwork-orange-and-the-critics/ |title=A Clockwork Orange and the Critics |date=14 June 2023 |publisher=The International Anthony Burgess Foundation}}</ref> Many reviewers praised the inventiveness of the language, but expressed unease at the violent subject matter. ''[[The Spectator]]'' praised Burgess's "extraordinary technical feat" but was uncomfortable with "a certain arbitrariness about the plot which is slightly irritating". ''[[New Statesman]]'' acclaimed Burgess for addressing "acutely and savagely the tendencies of our time" but called the book "a great strain to read".<ref name="critics"/> ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' review was negative, and described the book as "a very ordinary, brutal and psychologically shallow story".<ref>Brooks, Jeremy. "A Bedsitter in Dublin". ''Sunday Times'', 13 May 1962, p. 32.</ref> ''[[The Times]]'' also reviewed the book negatively, describing it as "a somewhat clumsy experiment with science fiction [with] clumsy cliches about juvenile delinquency".<ref name="New Fiction 1962, p. 16">"New Fiction". ''Times'', 17 May 1962, p. 16.</ref> The violence was criticised as "unconvincing in detail".<ref name="New Fiction 1962, p. 16"/>

===Writer's appraisal===
Burgess dismissed ''A Clockwork Orange'' as "too didactic to be artistic".<ref>''A Clockwork Orange'' (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback) by Anthony Burgess, Blake Morrison xxii</ref> He said that the violent content of the novel "nauseated" him.<ref>Calder,, John Mackenzie, and Anthony Burgess. "Ugh". ''The Times Literary Supplement'', 2 January 1964, p. 9.</ref>

In 1985, Burgess published ''Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence'' and while discussing ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' in his biography, Burgess compared the notoriety of [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s novel with ''A Clockwork Orange'': "We all suffer from the popular desire to make the known notorious. The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a ''jeu d'esprit'' knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me until I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation, and the same may be said of Lawrence and ''Lady Chatterley's Lover''."<ref>''Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence'' (Heinemann, London 1985) Anthony Burgess, p 205</ref>

===Awards and nominations and rankings===
* 1983&nbsp;– [[Prometheus Award]] (Preliminary Nominee)
* 1999&nbsp;– Prometheus Award (Nomination)
* 2002&nbsp;– Prometheus Award (Nomination)
* 2003&nbsp;– Prometheus Award (Nomination)
* 2006&nbsp;– Prometheus Award (Nomination)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lfs.org/hof_nominees.htm |title=Libertarian Futurist Society |publisher=Lfs.org |access-date=2014-01-03 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502040636/http://www.lfs.org/hof_nominees.htm |archive-date=2 May 2006}}</ref>
* 2008&nbsp;– Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award)

''A Clockwork Orange'' was chosen by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine as one of the [[Time's List of the 100 Best Novels|100 best English-language books]] from 1923 to 2005.<ref name=Time100/>