Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010)
Auteur de La Solitude du coureur de fond
A propos de l'auteur
Alan Sillitoe was born on March 4, 1928 and grew up in the slums of the industrial city of Nottingham. He began to write while in the Royal Air Force, stationed in Malaya. He is best known for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958), which won the Author's Club Prize for the best British novel of afficher plus 1958 and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959), which won Britain's Hawthornden Prize for 1960. Both books were adapted into films in 1960 and 1962 respectively. His other works include The Death of William Posters (1965), Tree on Fire (1967), Travels in Nihilon (1971), and Raw Material (1972). He died on April 25, 2010 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Alan Sillitoe
The Rats 3 exemplaires
A falling out of love, and other poems 2 exemplaires
The Fishing-Boat Picture 2 exemplaires
On Saturday Afternoon [short story] 2 exemplaires
The Collected Novels Volume One: Her Victory, The Widower's Son, and Travels in Nihilon (2018) 1 exemplaire
The Old Wives' Tale 1 exemplaire
Sillitoe Alan 1 exemplaire
Uncle Ernest [short story] 1 exemplaire
Mr. Raynor, the School-Teacher [short story] 1 exemplaire
Noah's Ark [short story] 1 exemplaire
Enoch's Two Letters [short story] 1 exemplaire
Without beer or bread 1 exemplaire
The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale [short story] 1 exemplaire
The Decline and Fall of Frankie Buller [short story] 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributeur — 452 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Sillitoe, Alan
- Date de naissance
- 1928-03-24
- Date de décès
- 2010-04-25
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Montpellier, France
Spain
Kent, England, UK
London, England, UK - Professions
- factory worker
air traffic control assistant
novelist
short-story writer
poet
playwright - Relations
- Fainlight, Ruth (wife)
- Organisations
- Royal Air Force
- Prix et distinctions
- Honorary Freeman of Nottingham City (2008)
- Courte biographie
- [from jacket of We]
Novelist and playwright Alan Sillitoe has produced many celebrated novels and short stories including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, both of which were written in Spain and became widely acclaimed.
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3.5. Interesting autofiction about living in the cracks and crevices of capitalism.
Squalid without being sensationalized. Charming and melancholy. It's hard being a human, but failure isn't as dramatic as all that.
First story is the British cousin of Catcher in the Rye, a bit.
Some of these are very slice of life, which is fine.
I first heard of this from Iron Maiden.
First story is the British cousin of Catcher in the Rye, a bit.
Some of these are very slice of life, which is fine.
I first heard of this from Iron Maiden.
In the first, longer, section of the book, Saturday night, Arthur Seaton comes across as rather invincible. Earning a good wage in mindless work in a bicycle factory, making an effort to dress well, carrying out with two married women, drinking too much. In the second part, he's a bit more tentative and open, even if he's still convinced he knows better than anyone. As a novel, I found this book interesting to read, as a character I couldn't really stand Arthur for the most part.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 82
- Aussi par
- 18
- Membres
- 3,924
- Popularité
- #6,449
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 70
- ISBN
- 349
- Langues
- 15
- Favoris
- 9
Ein junger Mann kommt wegen eines Diebstahls in ein Borstal, ein Gefängnis für Jugendliche, und verbüßt dort seine Strafe. Der dortige Direktor erkennt sein Talent für den Langstreckenlauf. Danach wird ihm gestattet, für einen Lauf gegen Insassen anderer Borstals zu trainieren, da er sein Borstal in diesem Langstreckenlauf vertreten und gewinnen soll - zum Ruhme für den Gefängnisdirektor. In seinen täglichen Trainingsläufen in aller Früh und im eigentlichen Lauf reflektiert er sein Leben. Bald kennt der Leser seinen Background und wird der junge Mann schneller und schneller. Im entscheidenden Lauf übernimmt er bald die Führung und gibt als schnellster Läufer und sicherer Sieger gibt er kurz vor dem Ziel auf - aus Rache gegen die "Ehrlichkeit" des Gefängnisdirektors und aus Protest gegen die falsche Moral. Wissend nimmt er in Kauf, dass damit seine letzten sechs Monate kein Honigschlecken sein wird. Diese nutzt er im Sinne seiner "Ehrlichkeit" und plant seine weitere Karriere in der einzigen Profession, die er gelernt hat. In der Zeit zwischen zwei Coups bleibt ihm aber Zeit und schreibt seine Erlebnisse auf.… (plus d'informations)