English prose writer, critic, translator and composer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) began his literary career in his fifth decade and managed to write many books, but above all he is known as the author of the scandalous A Clockwork Orange. In the novel The Desiring Seed ` Burgess showed his imagination in all its brilliance, describing a future when the world's population has increased so much that people are in danger of starvation, childbearing is considered a crime, and infertility and homosexuality have become virtues. Only history repeats itself in a circle - or, if you prefer, in a spiral, professional the historian is able to use his knowledge in times of change.