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A Clockwork Orange

In this 1962 classic, a novelistic exploration of up to date crime and punishment, Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of „droogs“ thriving in the ultraviolent future, as prophetically imagined by Burgess. Speaking a bizarre Russian-derived slang, Alex and his friends freely pillage and slash their way across a nightmarish städtisch landscape nicht Alex is captured by the judicial bedürftig of the state. He then becomes their prized guinea pig nichtscientific program to completely „redeem“ him for society.

If we had the power of absolute criminal reform, what, the novel asks, would this mean for our ideals of freedom and society? This edition reinstates the final chapter missing from Kubrick’s film, in which Alex is on the verge of starting a family as he reflects on – and completely rejects – his adolescent nastiness. It dadurch includes Burgess’s introduction „A Clockwork Apfelsine Resucked“.