A Vision of Battlements

{{short description|1965 novel by Anthony Burgess}}

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| author = Anthony Burgess

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| published = Sidgwick & Jackson: London, 1965

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| pages = 265

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A Vision of Battlements is a 1965 novel by Anthony Burgess based on his experiences during World War II in Gibraltar, where he was serving with the British army. It is Burgess's first novel:{{cite journal|last=Nichol|first=Donald|title="Flagrant" versus "Fragrant" in Beaumont, Pope, Pound, and Burgess|journal=Modern Philology|date=August 1989|volume=87|issue=1|pages=76–82|doi=10.1086/391749|s2cid=161775775}} while it was not published until 1965, Burgess wrote it in 1949. As he explained in his introduction to the novel, "I was empty of music but itching to create. So I wrote this novel ... to see if I could clear my head of the dead weight of Gibraltar."{{cite book|last=Burgess|first=Anthony|title=A Vision of Battlements|year=1965|publisher=Norton|pages=7–8}}