[lit-ideas] Alan Sillitoe
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- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:43:42 +0200
Alan Sillitoe died last Saturday night.
The Washington Post graciously published a photograph which is the
image by which i would like to remember him:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/26/AR2010042604066.html
Although he disliked the epithet *Angry Young Man', I'm sure he would
not like to be remembered as a 'Tired Old Man' (as depicted in more
recent photographs which accompany other obituaries and internet
entries) either. The camera always lies.
As does fiction - good fiction, deliberately. I have learned more
about writing from Alan Sillitoe's _Raw Materials_ than from all the
other writings about writing which i have read put together. It is
interesting and instructive to learn how more honest such fictional
'lying' is than attempts to simply record or report (to say nothing of
argue for) what one imagines to be the truth. Alan Sillitoe taught me
that most clearly - and for that lesson I will be ever grateful.
Chris Bruce,
Kiel Germany
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