Burgess in the Orwell Game


 The book 1985 is the third and last dystopia in oeuvre of Anthony Burgess. It can be considered unique since it contains a string non-fictional texts reflecting on Orwell’s classic as well related philosophical, political, social, theological issues, followed by dystopian novella entitled “1985.” essay argues that book, but especially essays, read Burgess’s “cacotopian ars poetica,” or his most extensive statement genre.