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Samuel Selvon (1923–1994)

Auteur de The Lonely Londoners

20+ oeuvres 1,220 utilisateurs 37 critiques 7 Favoris

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Largely self-educated, Selvon was first a poet, later a journalist, and then a professional writer. In 1946 he became an editor at the Guardian Weekly in Trinidad. He left for England in 1950, where he wrote and published his first novel, A Brighter Sun (1952). This novel depicts the struggle of afficher plus the protagonist, a newly married Indian peasant, to adapt to life in a suburban area. In Turn Again Tiger (1958), a sequel to his highly successful first novel, the protagonist of A Brighter Sun returns to his community with a deeper sense of place. Both novels explore his relations to his origins and the various layers of Trinidadian society. Moses Ascending (1975) is a humorous satire on the situation of the West Indian in London. Although his roots are in the nineteenth-century novel, Selvon has created a personal literary language out of the fusion of standard English with Creole folk language, just as he has joined the techniques of European fiction to the West Indian rhythms. Though he now lives in Calgary, Canada, Selvon continues to write about West Indians with humor and sensitivity and tries to communicate his view that all West Indians---in spite of racial diversity---have a common identity. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Œuvres de Samuel Selvon

The Lonely Londoners (1956) 870 exemplaires
Moses Ascending (1656) 98 exemplaires
Brighter Sun (1953) 76 exemplaires
The Housing Lark (1965) 44 exemplaires
Ways of Sunlight (1957) 43 exemplaires
Turn Again Tiger (1959) 18 exemplaires
Those Who Eat the Cascadura (1972) 17 exemplaires
Moses Migrating (1983) 13 exemplaires
An Island is a World (1993) 10 exemplaires
Highway in the Sun & Other Plays (2008) 6 exemplaires
The plains of Caroni (1970) 3 exemplaires
Eldorado West One (2008) 3 exemplaires
A drink of water (1968) 2 exemplaires
Eine hellere Sonne Roman (2019) 1 exemplaire
I Hear Thunder 1 exemplaire
Ways of Sunlight (2024) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers (2004) — Contributeur — 99 exemplaires
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007) — Contributeur — 75 exemplaires
Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City (2020) — Contributeur — 50 exemplaires
Trinidad Noir: The Classics (2017) — Contributeur — 38 exemplaires
One World of Literature (1992) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories (1990) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
New World Writing: Second Mentor Selection (1952) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
EVERGREEN REVIEW: VOL. 3, NO. 9: SUMMER 1959 (1959) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires

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So good. Wonderful story. Laughing out loud reading it. Written in dialect, so fun to read. Excellent book. “Teena wait until Bat went to the table and stretch out his hand like one of them mechanical shovel you does see on building site. Then she gave him ONE lash. ‘Keep your digits off. ‘“ p117.
 
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BookyMaven | 1 autre critique | Dec 6, 2023 |
I found this at a Little Free Library and knew nothing about it. Although it was all in dialect, and I am sure I missed alot of meaning, I found it a really engaging read. It is less a novel and more a series of vignettes but they are very evocative. Although it is the story of West Indian migrants to London in the 1950s (the Windrush generation), I think it could be true of any of the other immigrant groups there today. It was funny and sad and very human and I really enjoyed reading it.
 
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amyem58 | 25 autres critiques | Sep 18, 2023 |
Um die Figur des Moses Aloeatta, der nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg aus Westindien nach London migriert, baut der trinidarische Autor Samuel Selvon (1923 - 1994) seinen kleinen, feinen Roman über die schwarz-migrantische community im London der 1950er Jahre: zu ihm kommen alle neuen Einwanderer, die Arbeit, Wohnung und Rat brauchen, wie man im nebligen, kalten London zurecht kommen kann, wenn man als Elektriker, Ölarbeiter oder Tunichtgut in den britischen Nachkriegs-Kolonien keine Perspektive mehr fand und den Verlockungen der postimperialen Metropole stattgab.
'Die Taugenichtse' ist warmherzig, ohne sentimental - also kitschig - zu sein. In kunstvoller Verschränkung und mit feiner Ironie erzählt der Autor von den verschiedenen Überlebens-Strategien, die diese Luftmenschen in fremder Umgebung entwickelten: von der assimilierten Überanpassung über¿s Durchwurschteln ohne fast nichts bis zum grandiosen Scheitern aufgrund naiven Größenwahns reichen die Lebensentwürfe dieser sich selbst als 'Mokkas' bezeichnenden Migranten, deren unterschiedliche Herkunftsländer immer auch Quelle konkurrenter Selbstbehauptung sind.
Miriam Mandelkow übersetzt die ausgezeichneten Dialoge dieses Buches wie auch insgesamt den Tonfall des migrantischen argot, slang, in ein ein zeitgemäßes Deutsch, das an die - wenn auch später entstandene - Musik von Linton Kwesi Johnson erinnert: 'Inglan is a bitch'.-
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Burkhard_Schirdewahn | 25 autres critiques | Oct 12, 2022 |
The Lonely Londoners is a 1956 novel by Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon and is about immigrant life in London. It’s focus is on the poor, working-class black people from the Caribbean who came to England after World War II for economic reasons. They came believing that England would offer opportunity, education and a better way of living but unfortunately what they found was prejudice, discrimination and a lack of good jobs and decent housing.

The novel is comprised of several short stories about various West Indian characters and their experiences. Written in a colorful dialect that gives the book a sense of authenticity, the author captures their feelings of loneliness, isolation and alienation. As it was mostly male immigrants that came to London at this time, the characters in the book are mostly male and females are more-or-less peripheral characters.

The Lonely Londoners was interesting as it captured a particular perspective regarding the post-war influx of Caribbean immigrants, but I did find the various stories were too short for me to become fully attached to the characters. There is no real plot to speak of, as the book consists of loosely connected vignettes, but although quite dark I did find quite a bit of humor was used as well.
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DeltaQueen50 | 25 autres critiques | Sep 18, 2022 |

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