Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) had a lifelong love of the writing of James Joyce (1882-1941).  He read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at 16. He took Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with him into the army in 1940. He wrote two critical studies of Joyce: Here Comes Everybody (1965) and Joysprick (1973) as well as many articles about him. He produced A Shorter Finnegans Wake (1966), presented a film on Joyce for the BBC (1965) and on Finnegans Wake for American television (1973). In 1982, he wrote a musical version of Ulysses called The Blooms of Dublin. His novels were heavily influenced by Joyce’s writing. In this paper, I will trace Joyce’s influence through a few of his 33 novels: Napoleon Symphony (1974), Nothing Like the Sun (1964), the Enderby tetralogy (1963-84) and his most well-known novel, A Clockwork Orange (1962). 

Dr. Peter Kennedy has taught in Hong Kong since 1988. At HKU, he teaches C20th poetry, C21st English poetry as well as a Ulysses course. A passionate Joycean, he inaugurated the annual ‘Bloomsday’ celebrations in HK 25 years ago. He continues to deepen his understanding of Joyce (see, for instance, his piece in the James Joyce Quarterly, 2021). He holds degrees from the universities of Bristol, Sussex, Wales, Essex and Trinity College Dublin. His five books and his journal articles have been mainly concerned with adult learning and learning English through literature. He also writes poetry that has been published in HK, Ireland, the UK (e.g. in the London Literary Review) and Germany.