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Alan Sillitoe Criticism

Alan Sillitoe, an influential English writer, is celebrated for his vivid depictions of the working-class experience and the societal constraints that shape and often stifle individual lives. His most renowned works, including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, focus on disillusioned characters like Arthur Seaton and Colin, who challenge societal norms within a rigid class system. These narratives have been adapted into films, broadening their reach and impact. While Sillitoe's novels such as the William Posters trilogy and A Start in Life explore themes of personal and social rebellion, critics like Walter Sullivan suggest his short stories often more effectively capture the nuances of human experience.

Contents

  • Principal Works
  • Sillitoe, Alan (Vol. 1)
  • Sillitoe, Alan (Vol. 148)
    • Fierce Burnings in Private Wildernesses
    • Alan Sillitoe—The Novelist as a Poet
    • Love in the Environs of Voronezh
    • A Naturalist No More
    • A Start in Life
    • Trouble at the Dacha
    • Erewhon and Eros: The Short Story Again
    • Sillitoe Novel Traces a Soldier's Growth and Switch to Civilian Life
    • The Second Chance and Other Stories
    • Complex People Plunge into Love
    • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and Chariots of Fire
    • Biggles and the Murks
    • The Roots of Sillitoe's Fiction
    • The Growth of a Writer: An Interview with Alan Sillitoe
    • The Work of Play: Anger and the Expropriated Athletes of Alan Sillitoe and David Storey
    • Jilted by His Fairy Godmother
    • Never Go Back
    • Last Loves
    • Proletarian Byronism: Alan Sillitoe and the Romantic Tradition
    • Nurtured by the Wasteland
    • A Life in Notts
    • Don't Thee ‘Tha’ Me
    • Crime as a Buzz
    • Excess Cappuccino
    • Nottingham Nights
    • Mapping the Modern City: Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham Novels
  • Sillitoe, Alan (Vol. 19)
    • Mother Trouble
    • Illuminating the Ordinary
    • Booze-Ups & Fist-Fights
    • 'The Storyteller'
    • Alan Sillitoe Breaks His Stride
    • People from the Provinces
  • Sillitoe, Alan (Vol. 6)
  • Sillitoe, Alan (Vol. 3)
  • Sillitoe, Alan (Vol. 10)
    • Lawrence R. Ries
    • Gilberto Perez
    • Edith Milton
  • Further Reading