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Chargement... Hurry on Down (1953)par John Wain
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Humoristický román o muži, který se po ukončení vysoké školy rozhodne hledat své místo v životě a ve společnosti jinak, než odpovídá zažitým způsobům. Při tom se setkává s lidmi různých sociálních skupin a zažívá mnohdy nelehké, leč ve své podstatě komické, situace. (Založil/a: Jezinka) The ideas expressed are creative and amusing, but they are also bitter, and perhaps it explains why John Wain is often included as one of the novelists referred to as the Angry Young Men of the post-war period. But whatever bitterness his character feels, it is not projected outwards; he doesn't retaliate against Society. He simply looks out into the world and recognises that he doesn't share the aspirations of the class into which he has been born. He doesn't see a place for someone who thinks the way he does. Continued This is the story of a young man's progression, a Tom Jones or Roderick Random for the 1950s. I think Wain is attempting a full-blooded picaresque, but doesn't really manage to sustain it. He certainly uses all the furniture, including increasingly unlikely co-incidences where old acquaintances keep turning up to to send our hero spinning off in a different direction as he continues his spiral from Middle Class graduate to down-and-out. Charles Lumley is as unattractive character as you could want to meet, his sense of his own superiority to his origins, and his fatuous rejection of them, are nothing to his all-round loathing for everyone fellow beings. Although Wain is writing a comedy, I can';t help comparing him with Alan Sillitoe, a man who really knows how to write about the working classes without turning them into cardboard cut-outs. Oddly, both have often been lumped in with the Angry Young Men, although neither were ever part of that 'movement'. This is Wain's first novel and an odd thing it is too, almost a novel of two halves, the first being genuinely funny, the second becoming sour and unconvincing. I though it was an interesting period piece. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"A great fund of comic invention." - "Times Literary Supplement" "Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - "Listener" " A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of darkness." - "Sunday Times" Charles Lumley feels that he has been born in captivity - the captivity of his smugly conventional bourgeois upbringing. Now he has just graduated from university, only to make the discouraging discovery that his education has rendered him unfit for any kind of useful employment. Wondering what to do with the rest of his life and longing to escape, a chance remark overheard in a pub sets him off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s Britain. He undergoes a string of comic misadventures as he works as a window cleaner, a drug trafficker, a hospital orderly, and a chauffeur, all while trying to find his place in the world and win the love of the beautiful Veronica Roderick. John Wain (1925-1994) was one of the great English men of letters of the 20th century, a prolific novelist, poet, biographer, and critic whose many accolades included the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Whitbread Award. "Hurry on Down" (1953), his first novel, ushered in a new kind of English novel and paved the way for many later classics, including Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim" (1954) and John Braine's "Room at the Top" (1957). This 60th anniversary edition includes an introduction by Nick Bentley and marks the novel's first republication in the United States in more than half a century. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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