A Clockwork Orange is something that shouldn’t exist in nature but does: bracing social comment that also works as pure pulp fiction. Should man be free to choose; or if not, does he cease being a man? Never mind that, what about all that ultra-violence!
When reading A Clockwork Orange today, two other things jump out. One is the unique lingo of the narrative, the so-called “Nadsat” slang of our juvenile-delinquent protagonist, Alex. The other is it being made into an even more famous Stanley Kubrick film.
More on that later.
