Criticism
Anthony Burgess wrote a review of Joseph Kell's book for the Yorkshire Post. "hen the editor sent him the author's novel - Burgess thought it was a practical joke but it wasn't." When the paper found out that Kell was one of Burgess's pen names, Burgess was removed from his reviewing duties.
Anatole Broyard of The New York Times wrote:
"Mr. Burgess is so fond of Enderby - by far his best creation - that he has devoted four books to him: Inside Mr. Enderby and Enderby Outside, which were published in 1968, The Clockwork Testament in 1975, and now, Enderby's Dark Lady."
Harold Bloom has nominated the novel as one of his candidates for "the most undervalued English novel of our era".
Read more about this topic: Inside Mr. Enderby
Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“It is ... pathetic to observe the complete lack of imagination on the part of certain employers and men and women of the upper-income levels, equally devoid of experience, equally glib with their criticism ... directed against workers, labor leaders, and other villains and personal devils who are the objects of their dart-throwing. Who doesn’t know the wealthy woman who fulminates against the “idle” workers who just won’t get out and hunt jobs?”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“As far as criticism is concerned, we don’t resent that unless it is absolutely biased, as it is in most cases.”
—John Vorster (1915–1983)