Anthony Burgess is a famous English writer, the author of the best-selling book “A Clockwork Orange,” filmed by director Stanley Kubrick, and a number of books that explore human nature and the development of modern civilization. The phantasmagoric novel “The Doctor Is Sick” is an exciting narrative in the tradition prose of an intellectual experiment. The action of the novel balances on the precarious edge of reality. The shock from his wife’s betrayal was so great that it tore Edwin Priboy, a philosopher and linguist, out of the familiar world of phonetic and grammatical laws of nineteenth-century urban slang. He loses his sense of reality and ends up in a clinic. To escape from surgical intervention in the holy of holies of man - the brain, the doctor escapes from the hospital hell and finds himself among the degrading layers of London's bottom at the end of the twentieth century, where the language and thinking of new times are formed.