‘From Joyce, Anthony Burgess learned that language isn’t simply a means of communication but a wild, disruptive pleasure in itself; 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘞𝘢𝘬𝘦 is his book of books, his venerable codex, the hill he would happily die on.’
Ian Penman on the novelist.
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