Mozart And The Wolfgang

In Mozart and The Wolf Gang, Anthony Burgess pays a playful and ironic tribute to one of the world’s greatest composers.“We have imagined conversations between famous composers, the libretto for an opera buffa, a film script, a schizophrenic dialogue between two characters called ‘Anthony’ and ‘Burgess’ and a short story structured in imitation of the 40th symphony. Perhaps we should simply think of it as a divertimento, since the whole enterprise is carried off with a touch of Mozartian levity . . . Burgess’s originality lies in the inventiveness and animation with which he has organized his material.”–Guardian“The whole thing is typically hectoring, self-indulgent, entertaining, stirring – and in the attempt to render one art form (Symphony no. 40) by another (Burgess the wordsman) brilliant, futile, and (this is why you should buy it) vital.”–City Limits