Alan Sillitoe

BRUCE WEBER ” Alan Sillitoe, ‘Angry’ British Novelist, Dies at 82” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/books/26sillitoe.html

元「怒れる若者」のアラン・シリトー氏死去。
記事に曰く、

Mr. Sillitoe, who grew up desperately poor and left school at 14, had a long and prolific career, and he spent much of it plumbing the privations of his childhood for material. He published more than 50 books — including poetry, essays, travel writing and fiction for both adults and children — along with a handful of plays and screenplays. But he never repeated the acclaim or the influence that accrued to his first works of fiction, which were published in the late 1950s and led critics to group him with the so-called angry young men, writers like Kingsley Amis, John Braine, John Wain and the playwright John Osborne who were also describing characters in revolt against the British class system.

50冊以上本を出していたことは知らなかった。それから、『土曜の夜と日曜の朝』は読んでいないことに気づいた。『長距離走者の孤独』は池田満寿夫の装幀に惹かれてジャケ買いしたもの*1。

長距離走者の孤独 (新潮文庫)

*1:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080305/1204725934