ISBN: 0330241176
Godina izdanja: 1974
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Alan Sillitoe - Raw Material
Pan, 1974
186 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Alan Sillitoe is best known for THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER. In RAW MATERIAL we meet Sillitoe`s impoverished Midlands forebearers and learn why Sillitoe believes family relationships are the basis of all security, love and perhaps all truth. For him, these relationships are the artistic `raw material` of his work; thus the family becomes not only the edifice of his life, but also grist for his mill.

This is a book about two families-a blacksmith`s and an upholsterer`s. It tells by the wayside a little of what made the author-who has a certain standing in his own volume of so-called Raw Material.
It is also a trip to Jerusalem (as the Nottingham pub is called), a personal statement, a voyage to the battlefields of France, a dip-book, a family album, a hundred-year time-span, a mirror through which the author not only brings his people into the open but comes out with them as well-holding their hands, as it were, while they speak.
Raw Material is anything but raw like the meat in a butcher`s shop, though there are characters in it who bleed in various places. It is neither quite fiction nor non-fiction, but a mish-mash of fact, and an artefact of fiction, a conscious romp in a half-disciplined style, a self-portrait of a non-man, a non-portrait of a self-made man, a first-rate port of call for the affections and afflictions that come to mind-which are offered on a bookplate for all to read and, if possible, relish.

Fiction, 0330241176