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Stanley Kubrick never managed to get his blockbuster about the life and death of Napoleon Bonaparte past the planning stages.
Stanley Kubrick enlisted Anthony Burgess’s help to mould the life of le petit caporal into a cohesive narrative.
The Great Napoleonic Novel was completed and published in 1974 .
It is a shame Napoleon Symphony never became an audiobook.
Burgess’s novel, Napoleon Symphony , probably wouldn’t be published nowadays.
It revels in lascivious episodes and brutal acts of violence, all rendered in close, lecherous detail.
Burgess also ridicules Napoleon 's supporting cast and the revolutionary agenda in general.
Burgess’s Napoleon is more tender-hearted than the primary sources suggest.
He is also a bulwark against other dangerous ideological currents.
In one passage that prefigures the rise of Nazism , for instance, a German prisoner waxes lyrical about the destiny of the Germanic people.
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