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Anthony Burgess & The Flatulent Poet
Inside Mr Enderby is one of my favorite novels, written by renowned British author Joseph Kell and published in 1963. The book follows the life of F.X. Enderby, a dyspeptic poet who lives a solitary life of writing and intestinal eloquence until he is seduced by a glamorous widow who attempts to reform him. The 1960s were a golden age for literary novelists – Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, J.G. Ballard. One of the literary greats, Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange , reviewed Inside Mr Enderby for the Yorkshire Post. His review was quite critical: “This is,…