Borrowed a few Burgess books from my Dad after enjoying 'Earthly Powers' so much on holiday.
I found this a difficult book; Enderby is (part one) a very odd eccentric, not very pleasant or a very good (as I read it) poet; in part two he is dragged into marriage by a merry widow for reasons unclear to me; he leaves her, returns to the UK from Rome where they have been on honeymoon and (part three) attempts suicide and ends up in psychiatric care, being apparently normalised/ conventionalised and becomes Mr. Hogg.
Totally unclear to me (perhaps deliberately) where Burgess’s sympathies lie - the unpleasant eccentric poet, or the normalised middle-class Englishman at the end.
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