Re: Esperanto film (was Re: Meta-History of Atlantean)

And Rosta wrote:

> Matt:
> > "Quest for Fire", a film from the early 80s about an encounter
> > between two groups of prehistoric humans, a primitive cave-dwelling
> > group and a more advanced hunter-gatherer group (possibly meant to
> > be Neanderthals and homo sapiens sapiens, respectively).  Although
> > there isn't much dialogue in the film at all, what little dialogue
> > there is is in conlangs--a simple grunting language for the
> > Neanderthals, and a more complex 'modern' language for the homo
> > sapiens sapiens.  The languages were constructed by Anthony Burgess,
> > author of "A Clockwork Orange" and an occasional dabbler in conlanging.
>
> Do you know of any Burgess conlang dabbling apart from Nadsat and
> the Quest for Fire? I don't, neither in his published works nor in
> his nonliterary life. Yet I may have overlooked or forgotten something.
Though I consider "A Clockwork Orange" to be a masterpiece, I do not
otherwise care for Anthony Burgess's work very much.  I find him too cold and
cerebral, even for my academic tastes.  But from what I've seen of his work,
he seems to enjoy playing creatively with language--though much more in the
tradition of Lewis Carroll or James Joyce than of Tolkien.  Other than Nadsat
and the Quest for Fire languages, the only other conlanging effort of his
that I'm aware of is his parody of Newspeak from his novel "1985".

Matt.

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