The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgesss fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of the twentieth centurys most innovative authors. This book explores Burgesss dazzlingly diverse range of novels through the one key theme which links them all – the artistic process itself. Borrowing from Nietzsches aesthetic dichotomy of Apollo and Dionysus, the book uncovers the protracted evolution of Burgesss fiction and offers a unifying theory which links his early postcolonial fiction chronologically, via his modernist experiments like A Clockwork Orange and Nothing Like The Sun, to his late classics Mozart and the Wolfgang and A Dead Man in Deptford. This volume clarifies Burgesss seminal role as both late modernist and early postmodernist, and lucidly unveils the legacy of Englands most mercurial novelist.