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 | | Anthony Burgess on the Mimetic Response Burgess similarly rejected the notion that the novel or the film could drive readers and viewers to violence, though he notes that the film could not be made until society had become sufficiently tolerant of images of violence and sexuality in popular culture. |
 | | Anthony Burgess, who was born on Feb. 25, 1917, and died on Nov. 25, 1993, who also published as John Burgess Wilson and as Joseph Kell, was a versatile translator, musician, and comic novelist. |
 | | Burgess's remarks about pornography clarify by the contrast: unlike art, pornography is precisely intended to collapse the distinction between art and life and to trick the viewer into responding as if the image is the real thing: no catharsis or "purification" of feeling into thought, no self-reflection, no critique. |
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