''Enderby Outside'', first published in 1968 in

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by William Heinemann, is the second volume in the Enderby series of comic novels by

Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his Utopian and dystopian fiction, dy ...

. The series began with the publication in 1963 of '' Inside Mr. Enderby'', continued in 1968 with ''Enderby Outside'' and 1974 with '' The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End'', and concluded after a ten-year break in 1984 with '' Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby''.

Plot summary

After a

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at the very end of '' Inside Mr. Enderby'', the second novel opens with the protagonist under psychiatric care and working as a bartender at a large London hotel. Under the name of 'Hogg' (his stepmother's maiden name, we learn), he is persuaded to renounce the creation of poetry as an adolescent preoccupation and to pursue useful work. Hogg-Enderby, bereft of his stock of capital and now divorced, is forced to earn his keep and finds that the poetic muse has left him. He also finds that his work has been plagiarised, again, by a certain rock singer named Yod Crewsey - whose band, the Crewsey Fixers, are managed and groomed by his former wife. After being implicated in the public murder of Crewsey during a banquet at the hotel, Enderby-Hogg goes on the run to Morocco - to the bar of a rival poet named Rawcliffe. Assuming control and ownership of Rawcliffe's property upon his death, and the death of his 'Hogg' persona, Enderby realises that his muse is returning.

References

Novels by Anthony Burgess 1968 British novels British comedy novels Novels set in hotels Novels set in Morocco Heinemann (publisher) books {{1960s-comedy-novel-stub