>this is literally, unironically the newest cover of A Clockwork Orange
There's even a 6-minute video on this fricking cover design with an interview with its creator. What are some other covers that might take up to 6 minutes of explanation to appreciate the genius of?
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Link the video. I brought this edition 2nd hand because of all the added commentary. It's my favourite book.
Picrel is the latest To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf cover. Just watch, soon all the classics will have these shitty cartoon covers.
>It’s a weird world out there.
penguin is supposed to be comfy why have they done this
Funny that even despite all of the artist's efforts to center the viewer's attention on the painter (by having her wear a bright yellow blouse, for instance), it is the bearded man (Mr. Ramsay?) who remains the most distinguishable and apparent figure. I wonder if that was intentional.
I'm so embarrassed on behalf of women
this is fricking hideous im never reading it ever it cant be good if it inspired this cover
The cover is a lie, anon. Male characters are sympathetic in the thoughts of the female characters and should be for the reader as well (even the guy in the top panel to a degree). There's so much room for the reader to reflect on their inner lives and how they interplay with other character's impressions of them. The fact the designer wrote empty speech bubbles for all the men shows just how blindly ideological the publishing industry has become; it's a completely soulless marketing of a classic. Lily, the painter, is a focus character but one of the key relationships in the book is between the father and son. She isn't a "slay queen" filtering out the babble of men but grows as a character trying to figure out how to reflect the relationships between them through the painting (Mrs. Ramsey, the matriarch, in particular, which is autobiographical for Woolf trying to connect with her own dead mother and her history as the beating heart within the family unit). What a sad sorry state we're in.
It's not actually all about the orange circle but:
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tumblrites and trannies took over all media.
I’ve always loved the quaint styles of a specific type of mass-market paperback, which you can’t quite put in words but know it’s that specific type when you see it. Although the book itself is often irritatingly small and with small font-size, as well as pages that eventually yellow and turn brittle and fragile, coming off sometimes in shards at the corner, the artwork is so beautifully quaint, better than the abstract pop art designs of some modern publishers or just hilariously bad Wordsworth-publisher ones or even apparently these BuzzFeed-cartoon style ones we have now as with
>I’ve always loved the quaint styles of a specific type of mass-market paperback
I love Choose Your Own Adventure covers. Tolkien's original Hobbit covers are perfect though.
Nothing is more quaint and timeless than mid-2000's motion picture frame stills as a cover. Star Wars books were some of the most quaint and timeless.
Uggghhhh that is some SOVL
Go look up the German publisher Diogenes, all their covers look like that.
Even the Manga Classics ones are better than this abomination. Who the hell thinks a comic strip works well for a cover?
>blocks your road
what's up with this trend? lol
Penguin Classics Deluxe covers are just unbelievably shit. I have no idea why they think this appeals to anyone.
i dont know, i quite like them
look how they massacred my boy
>there are people on this board who buy new paperbacks instead of shopping exclusively antiquarian
Time is the tyrant, and sometimes it's just easier. Different factors come into play with, say, Arden Shakespeares put out in different decades with different accompanying texts. When it comes to translations it depends an awful lot on the subject and the time of authorship, sometimes in ways that are weirdly unpredictable. For instance there's a public domain English translation of Longinus's On The Sublime that's just about everywhere online, but so good I suspect it's an improvement on the original, and probably lacks an equivalent in other languages. As for hard copies that are actually antique, or at least borderline, volumes put out by dedicated local or regional historical societies/institutions are well worth seeking out, and worth it for the pleasure of reading to be found hardly anywhere else. I have one about the Calumet Region (the southmost area around Lake Michigan) which is a rather astonishing epic about the re-engineering of landscapes and industrialization on the grand scale when such undertakings were new in the world. I'm too lazy to dig it up just now, but I think it was put out sometime in the early to mid 70s. It's of course handsomely bound and durably made. I got if for a mere $35, about 20 years ago.
I’ve noticed a trend away from abstract dissipations and dissolution to simple shapes and forms across art and graphic design over the years. It’s like people are burned out by the dissipation and dissolution and desperate to reign in it in without being kitsch or traditional.
I like it
kys
A minor cover for "a minor work".
>a minor work
Without this minor work, there'd be no GOAT Bowie album (Diamond Dogs) and arguably no cyberpunk. At least the cool kind.
Author's words.
>there'd be no GOAT Bowie album (Diamond Dogs)
shit taste. It's all about Station to Station, baby
it's pretty good.
simple, but perfectly executed. Perfect hue, perfect positioning of the graphical elements.
What's the video?
this is my favorite to date:
The cover is an old relief map of the region where the Canudos War, narrated in the book, happened.
Looks like the Times Pocket Atlas.
pretty nice.
Ouff this is beautiful. You Brazil-bros have always been one step ahead, and no one ever recognizes it…
Because Brazilians don't read, so publishers must find a way to attract people to books.
Serious question, and it's been years since I last read the book, so don't get prissy. What's the significance of the title again? What is a "clockwork orange"?
A modern man. The industrial/modern (clockwork) meeting the organic/human (orange).
>What is a "clockwork orange"?
Clockwork as in mechanical or fake, as in a clockwork bird or something like that. The term itself is confusing because we don't normally have clockwork versions of inanimate objects or we wouldn't apply the term clockwork to them, but according to the author, that's what he meant: a mechanical orange. But perhaps this "not making sense" is exactly the effect he wanted.
mk ultra
Iirc it was the name of the book within a book the dude was writing before he was paralyzed and beaten.
Without the orange (essence/soul), man is nothing more than clockwork (a machine), i.e. is Alex truly good merely because he's physically repulsed by it? Alex encounters the phrase in the novelist's house where the gangrape happens
from the introduction:
>...by definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange — meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State.
>I don’t think I have to remind readers what the title means. Clockwork oranges don’t exist, except in the speech of old Londoners. The image is a bizarre one, always used for a bizarre thing. “He’s as queer as a clockwork orange” meant he was queer to the limit of queerness. It did not primarily denote homosexuality, though a queer, before restrictive legislation came in, was the term used for a member of the inverted fraternity. Europeans who translated the title as Arancia a Orologeria or Orange Mécanique could not understand its wienerney resonance and they assumed that it meant a hand grenade, a cheaper kind of explosive pineapple. I mean it to stand for the application of a mechanistic morality to a living organism oozing with juice and sweetness.
This is literally fricking hilarious. The "orange" isn't a reference to colour, it's a corruption of the Malay "orang," meaning human.
(cf. "orang utan" which means "forest-person")
The "clockwork orange" is an unthinking, conformist human being who leads a mechanical existence.
That's one of the about dozen bullshit explanations he has given by now but for a long time he simply said that he had heard someone say "as queer as a clockwork orange" at a pub and liked how it sounded. And it sure as hell doesn't refer to Malay in that context.
The beauty of it is that all of his explanations work and are simultaneously true.
>B-but what he thought while naming it was-
Doesn't matter.
>and liked how it sounded
Burgess was a philologist and certainly wouldn't have chosen a title just because he "liked how it sounded."
The phrase may have caught his attention, but he wouldn't have used it without considering its full semantics.
He was a particular fan of Finnegans Wake and its multi-layered meanings; in fact he published a readers' guide and hosted a TV show aimed at popularising the novel.
>It's a phrase which I heard many years ago and so fell in love with, I wanted to use it, the title of the book.
None of that contradicts what I said. He might have wanted to use it, but he wouldn't have without due consideration. He was a serious novelist, not Doctor fricking Seuss.
Why are orangutans orange, though?
Serendipity.
That is literally the Xbox series S design
Better than this fricking horse shit
Achilles died for joos, didn't you know.
Lmfao. Is this real? That is both cringe and arrogant at the same time. Like the person overseeing the design felt they were making some huge and stirring comparison, but it just ends up being mawkish
The sadder thing is the translator/author probably had plenty of say in it and he proudly has it enshrined in glass at his house.
lmao
now someone post the Bible which has a photo of a North American cabin and river for a cover
Hackett hardcovers are the worst
Glad it's not just me. I accidentally an ugly copy of Moby dick online recently and can still return it
That's not nearly as bad.
I think it would be fine if it didn't leave out a third of the fricking title to draw attention to the orange circle. The design is nice enough- minimalistic, if a bit too pretentious. I'd obviously rather some actual interesting artwork over this, but it's better than the usual garish shite you get on modern paperbacks. An actual orange with clockwork would have been far better though.
Penguin knows the word "orange" in the title is Nadsat for "orangutan" and is meant to signify a clockwork human, or a robot, right? Surely the publishers know this isnt a story about timepieces and oranges, right?