Mozart and the Wolf Gang: By Anthony Burgess

Burgess's novella-length piece, Mozart and the Wolf Gang, is a compendium of themes, genres, and art forms revolving around the reconcilability of life and art. This novel is a kaleidoscope of a book that stretches the bounds of Burgess's fiction to understand Mozart through celestial dialogue, an opera libretto, and fragments of a film script. It is one of Burgess's late, great works, often overlooked due to its experimental form, but remains accessible, entertaining, and original. This new critical edition with analysis from noted musicologist Alan Shockley enables a new generation of readers and scholars to assess its significance.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 04 October 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Written in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart's death, Burgess's novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres, and even art forms revolving around the one central preoccupation of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability of life and art. This is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of even Anthony Burgess's fiction in an attempt to understand Mozart through celestial dialogue, an opera libretto, and fragments of a film script.

As gracefully witty as it is daringly experimental, Mozart and the Wolf Gang is one of Burgess's late, great works, often overlooked due to its experimental form, which nevertheless remains accessible, entertaining, and yet refreshingly original to this day.

This new critical edition with analysis from noted musicologist and a first-class literary critic Alan Shockley enables this work's significance to be assessed by a new generation of readers and scholars.

Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526132727