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INTERVIEWER
Are there any limits that you think an author should observe in the language he uses to present controversial subject matter?
BURGESS
My aversion to describing amorous details in my work is probably that I treasure physical love so highly I don’t want to let strangers in on it. For, after all, when we describe copulation we’re describing our own experiences. I like privacy. I think that other writers should do what they can do, and if they can spend—as one of my American girl students did—ten pages on the act of fellatio without embarrassing themselves, very good luck to them. |
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| Anton Chekhov, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Georges Simenon, John Updike, Evelyn Waugh, Munshi Abdullah, J. M. Barrie, William Blake, Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Henry Fielding, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Ian Fleming, Ford Madox Ford, Joris Karl Huysmans, Samuel Johnson, James Joyce, John Keats, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Thomas Mann, Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Christopher Smart, Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, Henry David Thoreau, Nathanael West |
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