Une Petite Specialité Called l’Amour

Burgess, Food and Drink

Authors

  • Will Carr International Anthony Burgess Foundation  Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28157

Keywords:

Anthony Burgess, food and literature, Food and Identity, food and memory, food cultures, meals, sensory faculties, Lancashire, France, The Joyce of Cooking

Abstract

The particular focus in this paper is the way in which food and drink offers a way in to considering questions of identity, memory and autobiography in Burgess’s writing, and to suggest that looking at the differences in his presentation of English and French food cultures is especially interesting.

Author Biography

  • Will Carr, International Anthony Burgess Foundation 

    Will Carr is deputy director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. He has worked in arts administration for many years, having started out at the Arts Council England, then as director of the Poetry School, and chair of the National Association for Literature Development.

References

Armstrong, Alison (editor), The Joyce of Cooking: Food and Drink from James Joyce’s Dublin – An Irish Cookbook. Rhinebeck, NY: Station Hill Press, 1986.

Burgess, Anthony, ‘A Clockwork Forage’, Harper’s and Queen, 1990.

–––, Beard’s Roman Women. London: Hutchinson, 1976.

–––, Earthly Powers. London: Hutchinson, 1980.

–––, ‘Hot Pot and Tay’, unpublished typescript: International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) archive, 1983.

–––, Inside Mister Enderby. London: William Heinemann, 1963.

–––, Le Livre du Thé. Paris: Flammarion, 1992.

–––, Little Wilson and Big God. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.

–––, Interview with unidentified French journalist, unreleased audio cassette: IABF archive, 1983.

–––, ‘Snake, Steak and Bellyache’, review of Feasts: An Anthology edited by Christopher Bland and Linda Kelly: Observer, 1987.

–––, ‘The Glory Of Garlic’, Gourmet magazine, 1984.

–––, The Pianoplayers, unpublished typescript: IABF archive, 1986.

–––, The Pianoplayers. London: Hutchinson, 1986.

Burgess, Anthony and Lewis, Michael J., ‘Une petite specialité called l’amour’, unreleased reel-to-reel tape recording: IABF archive, 1973.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Structural Anthropology, translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. New York: Doubleday, 1963

Published

2016-04-01

Issue

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Une Petite Specialité Called l’Amour: Burgess, Food and Drink. (2016). Petits Propos Culinaires, 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28157