SILLITOE, Alan

SILLITOE, Alan
(1928-)
   UK writer best known for novels like Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958). The General (1960) sets abstract armies clashing on an abstract ground, perhaps not Terran. The anti-authoritarian SATIRE, Travels in Nihilon (1971), initially reads as a DYSTOPIA, for the 5travellers to that country despise its government and work to overthrow it; but, by story's close, Nihilism as a political creed seems to gain the author's guarded sanction. Snow on the North Side of Lucifer (1979) is a poetry sequence about conflicts between God and Satan.
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  • Sillitoe, Alan — born March 4, 1928, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Eng. English writer. The son of a tannery worker, he worked in factories from age 14. Many of his later novels and stories are brash and angry accounts of working class life, beginning with his… …   Universalium

  • Sillitoe, Alan — (n. 4 mar. 1928, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Inglaterra). Escritor inglés. Hijo de un empleado de una curtiembre, trabajó en fábricas desde los 14 años de edad. Muchas de sus últimas novelas y cuentos son crudos y destemplados recuentos de la… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Sillitoe, Alan —  (1928–) English novelist …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • Sillitoe, Alan — (1928 )    Born in Nottingham, the son of a laborer, he left school at 14 to work in the Raleigh Bicycle Factory, then as an air traffic control assistant. He served as a Royal Air Force wireless operator in Malaya; after demobilization he was… …   British and Irish poets

  • Alan Sillitoe — en 2009 Activités romancier Naissance 4 mars …   Wikipédia en Français

  • SILLITOE (A.) — SILLITOE ALAN (1928 ) Né dans une famille ouvrière de Nottingham, ville qui lui fournira maints décors, Sillitoe quitte l’école à quatorze ans pour entrer à l’usine. Mais si son œuvre se situe en majeure partie dans la tradition du roman… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Alan — alán (ant.) m. *Perro alano. * * * alán. m. desus. perro alano. * * * (as used in expressions) Alanbrooke (de Brookeborough), Alan Francis Brooke, 1 vizconde Arthur, Chester A(lan) Ayckbourn, Sir Alan Bennett, Alan Dershowitz, Alan (Morton) …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Alan — /al euhn/, n. a male given name: from a Celtic word meaning harmony. * * * (as used in expressions) Arthur Chester Alan Ayckbourn Sir Alan Bennett Alan Dershowitz Alan Morton Greenspan Alan Hazeltine Louis Alan Heeger Alan J. Hovhaness Alan Alan… …   Universalium

  • Alan Sillitoe — (2009) Alan Sillitoe (* 4. März 1928 in Nottingham; † 25. April 2010 in London) war ein britischer Schriftsteller, der vor allem durch seine Erzählung „Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers“ (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, 1959) b …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Alan Sillitoe — (2009) Alan Sillitoe (4 de marzo de 1928 25 de abril de 2010 [1]) fue un escritor inglés, al que se vincula al movimiento de los Angry Young Men en los años 50 …   Wikipedia Español

  • Sillitoe — ist der Name folgender Personen: Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), englischer Schriftsteller Nick Sillitoe (* 1971), englischer DJ, Jazzmusiker und Komponist Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit dem …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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