Considers Burgess's fiction in toto, and offers readers a route into his fiction which takes account of his entire literary achievement and the substantial recent academic attention it has achieved

Despite the sustained interest in Burgess's fiction, there has been a curious paucity of book literary scholarship about his literary work

Posits three first principles – that Burgess posited a fundamental duality which can aesthetically be expressed by reference to Nietzsche's opposition of Dionysus and Apollo; that Burgess wrote extensively about artists and the artistic impulse; and that Burgess often included avatars of himself in his own works

Jim Clarke is Senior Lecturer and Course Director of English and Journalism at Coventry University, UK. He is the author of the OUP bibliography of Anthony Burgess, and has written extensively on Burgess, James Joyce, JG Ballard, and Science Fiction. He is principal investigator on the 'Ponying the Slovos' project.