A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence.

What year is A Clockwork Orange set?

The plan for The Plank in Your Eye also reveals that the novel was to be set in the year 1980, and that Alex was originally going to be called Fred Verity. 2. The Droogs have their origins in the Manchester of the 1920s. Burgess always considered himself a Mancunian, even after he left the city for good in 1940.

Why did Clockwork Orange get banned?

Stanley Kubrick withdrew A Clockwork Orange from distribution in Great Britain in the wake of concern about the violence in the film.