Geburtstag: 4. März 1928
Todesdatum: 25. April 2010
Alan Sillitoe war ein britischer Schriftsteller, der vor allem durch seine Erzählung „Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers“ bekannt wurde.
Alan Sillitoe: Der Tod des William Posters. Deutsch von Peter Naujack, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969, ISBN 3-436-01519-9, S. 81
"As if anybody ever says what they think. It's always what somebody else thinks - in a different form." - The Death of William Posters, London 1965. p. 99
Der Tod des William Posters
Alan Sillitoe: Der Tod des William Posters. Deutsch von Peter Naujack, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969, ISBN 3-436-01519-9, S. 158
"Everything is geared to making you eat yourself - the way this society works. Look around, talk to anybody about their job or life, switch on the wireless or telly, and it says : "Eat yourself. Go on, eat yourself - crunch- crunch." - The Death of William Posters, London 1965. p. 195
Der Tod des William Posters
Alan Sillitoe: Der Tod des William Posters. Deutsch von Peter Naujack, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969, ISBN 3-436-01519-9, S. 229
"'Who is happy then? The rich?' 'Nobody's happy,' Frank said. 'There's no such thing as happiness except when you are doing work for yourself that at the same time is helping other people.'" - The Death of William Posters, London 1965. p. 286
Der Tod des William Posters
— Alan Sillitoe, buch Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers
Alan Sillitoe: Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Günther Klotz, Diogenes Verlag, Zürich 1967, ISBN 3-257-20413-2, S. 70
"And if I don't get caught the bloke I give this story to will never give me away; he's lived in our terrace for as long as I can remember, and he's my pal. That I do know." - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, London 1959. Excerpt: books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=2qp8sfNUIi4C&pg=PA197
Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers
Alan Sillitoe: Der Tod des William Posters. Deutsch von Peter Naujack, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969, ISBN 3-436-01519-9, S. 218
"We must love more people than just each other. The old idea of love is sliding away from the fingertips of the new man, like a thousand- coloured ferry boat heading for the open sea." - The Death of William Posters, London 1965. p. 272
Der Tod des William Posters
— Alan Sillitoe, buch Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Quelle: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
— Alan Sillitoe, buch Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Quelle: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
— Alan Sillitoe, buch Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958; repr. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959), p. 144.
"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner", from New and Collected Stories (1958; repr. London: Robson, 2003), p. 24.
The Death of William Posters (London: W. H. Allen, 1965), p. 87.
"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" (1958), from New and Collected Stories (1958; repr. London: Robson, 2003), p. 8.
The Daily Telegraph, reviewing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; cited from The Bookseller, October 25, 1958, p. 1641.
Also used as a tagline for the 1960 film adaptation.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning as quoted by the Arctic Monkeys in the title of their album.
Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1973] 1975) vol. 1, p. 337.
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