Napoleon Symphony

Description

Anthony Burgess’s fictional life of Napoleon was written in four movements based on Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony. Burgess dedicated the novel to Stanley Kubrick, who had planned to make a biographical film about Bonaparte and had asked Burgess to write a novel based on the Eroica Symphony to use as a screenplay. But when Burgess sent the first section to Kubrick, the director rejected it as a suitable treatment for a film. Freed from these constraints, Burgess developed the work into an experimental novel. This second printing of the first edition is in very good condition.