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Little Burgess and Big God Little Burgess and Big God Jim Clarke th 25 February 2017 marks the 100 anniversary of the birth of a celebrated author whose complicated relationship with Catholicism shaped his life and particularly his writing. Anthony Burgess, best known for A Clockwork Orange, was fixated on the Church, says Jim Clarke – how did that fascination manifest itself in Burgess’ body of work? His most famous work is a European continent, especially in moral fable about Original Sin Mediterranean countries. His lo- and free will. In his finest novel, ng exile in Mediterranean Europe, one of the protagonists is a including four years in Rome its- larger-than-life pope who exor- elf, may be seen as a sort of home- cises the demonically possessed. coming. It is perhaps the tension References to Augustine and between his sense of exile and his Pelagius litter the majority of ease in other cultures that differe- his fictions. He even worked for ntiates Burgess’ novels from those years as a commentator on of the two other English Catholic Vatican politics for the Italian writers with whom he is most press. Yet throughout his life, often compared, Graham Greene Anthony Burgess denied that he and Evelyn Waugh. was Catholic. A century after Photo by Duncan Hull at flickr.com his birth, England’s most Burgess’ cultural Catholicism was mercurial writer is only now getting the attention his ruptured by adolescent apostasy, however. This had work deserves. And at the heart of that work is the inevitable painful consequences. To turn his back on childhood faith he could never quite leave behind. the Roman Catholic faith was effectively to refute his recusant cultural origins: The author of A Clockwork Orange was born John Wilson in 1917 as the First World War raged. I have a portrait of an ancestor who lost his land to the Crown because he was a Catholic; there is a However, it was not war but the subsequent Spanish tradition of an earlier ancestor who lost his life. Flu pandemic that took the lives of his mother and The family suffered, apparently, so that I could ac- infant sister. Though his father later married into a hieve apostasy; an ironical end to the fight for fre- large Irish family, the young Burgess was a lonely child, edom of worship. I am far from happy about this an autodidact who taught himself about Modernist situation, but nobody can actively will loss of faith. music and literature while listening to a wireless he had built to keep himself company. This painful severing from the Church was due largely to the terrifying manner in which Catholic doctrine Raised a ‘Cat-lick’ rather than a ‘Proddy Dog’ in the was transmitted to the faithful when Burgess was a slang of his childhood, Burgess felt alienated from the youth. During his childhood, religious education Anglican cultural mainstream of England from an early focused on the threat of Hell and damnation, and on age. His Catholicism was primarily a regional identity. the Augustinian notion of Original Sin, which later With a religious identity redolent of Ireland and Lanca- became a prominent theme in his fiction. The Old shire recusants, Burgess acknowledged that he was Testament conception of God the Father, distant and ‘probably three-fourths Irish and one-fourth something vengeful, was the cornerstone of Burgess’ Roman else, whatever that is.’ Catholic upbringing and inspired the title for his first volume of autobiography, Little Wilson and Big God. If Culturally, being a Catholic placed Burgess outside the God was envisaged as a ‘vindictive invisibility’, Burgess history of mainstream English Literature from John was later to rationalise, perhaps He took no direct Bale onwards, but equally connected him instead to the interest in the lives of his creatures on Earth. Equally, tradition of art and civilisation that flourished on the He might be the wrong God. The pain caused by leaving the Church stayed with Christian Church as an analogy for the themes that he Burgess throughout his life, and he remained obsessed explored in his fiction. This debate unfolds in his comic by its behaviour and beliefs. For many years he repor- Enderby tetralogy in particular, but can be found as ted on Vatican politics for the Italian newspaper Corr- early as his first novel, A Vision of Battlements, which iere della Sera. His later engagement with Roman fictionalised his wartime experiences in Gibraltar. Catholicism, especially following the Second Vatican Council, often closely resembled the criticism offered Centred on a putative clash between Original Sin and from some traditionalist and conservative quarters free will, this debate provided Burgess with a set of ter- within the Church. He even considered a return to ms that he and his earliest critics used to describe aspe- Catholicism, despite lacking the ‘spark of faith’. How- cts of his work. Burgess came to accept that no organi- ever, the Church of his youth was no more, and he sed religion could accommodate these personal beliefs. found the reforms of Vatican II impossible to tolerate He once summarised his theological trajectory: ‘I was on an aesthetic level. The turning of the altar was ‘like a brought up a Catholic, became an Agnostic, flirted with butcher’s shop’, priests wore ‘flamboyant neckties’, and Islam and now hold a position which may be termed the ecclesiastical music of Handel and Purcell had been Manichee – I believe the wrong God is temporarily replaced by excerpts from Godspell. These ‘vulgarities’, ruling the world and that the true God has gone under.’ which he attributed to the influence of Pope John XXIII, inhibited any possibility of Burgess returning to Burgess remained intrigued by any creed that emulated Catholicism: ‘I tried to get back in [to the Catholic the austere Augustinian beliefs of his childhood. He Church] and just at that moment the Pope came up briefly flirted with converting to Islam during his time with a new absurdity and I had to turn my back again.’ as a colonial officer in Malaya, as it evoked for him the ‘puritanical element’ that he felt existed in the ‘Anglo- Burgess’ personal animus against John eventually fou- Irish brand’ of Catholicism of his youth. Burgess was nd fruit in his finest novel, the blockbuster alternative never interested in converting to any form of Protestan- history Earthly Powers, in which the rambunctious tism, which he airily dismissed, following James Joyce, exorcist Carlo Campanati is elevated to the papacy. as an illogical absurdity. Similarly, despite living in the Carlo dines well and often in between visceral battles East and exposing himself to all manner of Oriental be- with evil, wherein he expels demons and tortures Nazis liefs, he felt unmoved by other major religions. ‘I’ve into submission. But in Burgess’ fiction, evil often never had any feeling for Buddhism at all,’ he once exp- emerges from good and vice versa. Inevitably, Carlo’s lained. ‘Never had any feeling for Hinduism. I cannot miraculous intervention to save the life of a dying child go along with the Californian Vedantists. I cannot go results in a massacre when the infant grows up to along with Hinduism at all, nor with Buddhism. But I become a Jim Jones figure leading his own death cult. can go along with Islam, because it’s pretty close to us.’ Having left the Church, Burgess began formulating a Burgess hoped that, ‘if I worshipped Allah the God of theology of his own, drawing heavily on his limited the Catholics would leave me alone’, but the reality of understanding of early church politics. He hypothes- converting to Islam raised issues that both he and his ised that evil temporarily ruled this plane of existence, character Rupert Hardman, who converts in Enemy in in an eternal war with good. Yet his notion transcended the Blanket, found unacceptable. Though Islam features good and evil into a more structural binary opposition. prominently in The Malayan Trilogy, Devil of a State and In his spy novel, Tremor of Intent, intended as a satire of 1985, and forms part of the cultural background in Ian Fleming, this plays out against the backdrop of the Napoleon Symphony and Earthly Powers, Burgess’ rejecti- Cold War. The novel’s hero Denis Hillier eventually on of Islam was based primarily on what he perceived resolves the apparently unending clash by stepping out as hypocrisy among Islamic authorities, which is depic- of the fray to become a Catholic priest. ted in both The Enemy in the Blanket and 1985. By the time of the fatwah against Salman Rushdie, his opinion To explore this duality, Burgess focused on the doctrin- had hardened further to the point where he condemned es of two early Church theologians, St Augustine of what he called ‘Islam’s gangster tactics’ in The Indepen- Hippo and the British monk Pelagius. Within this dent newspaper. Later again, in his posthumously framework, Burgess identified, and often fictionalised, published verse novel, Byrne, Burgess depicted Islam as a theological debate that had raged within the early a faceless terror campaign. Little Burgess and Big God 2 Jim Clarke www.thinkingfaith.org Copyright © Jesuit Media Initiatives 23 February 2017 Despite his theological predisposition, Burgess was ins- with the oppressive authoritarian bodies of the political istent that religious themes were an undesirable dimin- Roman and ecclesiastical Jewish states. The text is ution of the purpose of fiction. He once questioned curiously unreligious for a novel about Christ, less whether ‘the novel is an unredeemably profane form, religious even than Crace’s atheistic but meditative and that saints can’t belong there’, but concluded that narrative in Quarantine.
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