Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Saturday night and Sunday morning ( engl. "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" ) is the title of a 1958 novel by Alan Sillitoe published. The novel will be incorporated into the motion of the Angry Young Men, playing in the working-class background in England during the 1950s. Template for the novel with autobiographical features was a series of short stories entitled The Adventures of Arthur Seaton.

Action

The novel is divided into two chapters: Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Saturday night

Arthur Seaton, the protagonist, is in his early twenties and worked as piece workers in a factory that manufactures bicycle cylinder. To break out of the monotony of factory work and enjoy themselves, he does what most workers do: He goes on weekends in pubs, versäuft the weekly wage. So opens the book with a drinking contest, which stretches Arthur to the ground. He has affairs with Brenda, the wife of his colleague and friend Jack, later with Winnie, her sister, the wife of a soldier. For him, the best solution, since a relationship with a woman unbound always means the sword of Damocles of marriage. The affair to Winnie flies; her husband wants to beat Arthur. Also, Jack suspects now that Brenda had an affair with Arthur and the situation escalates gradually.

Arthur learns while to know a new wife Doreen; unbound, young, pretty, restrained. He spends a lot of time with her, it creates a delicate affair. But his reservations about unbound girl prevent him to leave the relationship really be serious - as Arthur goes to the military for some time, they lose the time being out of sight. And finally it comes, as it had come, as it challenged Arthur's wild affair and rich life: He is surprised and beaten by Winnie's husband and another soldier in an alley.

Sunday morning

Arthur was in the hospital and at home also needs some time to stay in bed to recover. Time, his situation to rethink his life and his ideas and goals to eventually take the decision to live a different life - a stable, constant - and with Doreen.

Explanation

The track selection and the eponymous naming of the chapter is a symbol of two phases of life. Saturday night is for the storms risch drängerische, free and unbound, provocative and life - Enjoy want the young workers. During the week you work in a factory to earn the money that they for rent, good clothes and "leisure" - women, football watching (in this case Notts County), drinking, going out - need. The life of young English workers can be split in two: the cloudy, monotonous time in the factory and the real wild life at the weekend, culminating mostly in a big binge drinking and other pleasures on Saturday night and with the quiet Sunday morning - sleep in, relax, have breakfast long, stroll, etc. - decays. His dramatic, fatal and also quite symbolic end is the chapter with the "Revenge " ( the striking together ) to Arthur - unspoken question: can it go on?

The answer to this is Sunday morning: Arthur led his wild life full of self-confidence and conviction, energy and enjoyment. But he realizes that he does not want to continue this forever wild life. He is level-headed, wants a family and begins to appreciate peace and a stable and intimate relationship, on which can build a life different. Sunday morning is for prudence, for human maturity, the intellectual- emotional development process of a young man who is about to make his life and to take responsibility.

Adaptations

1960 novel by Karel Reisz with Albert Finney was filmed in the role of Arthur Seaton ( " Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ").

In 1964, a stage adaptation of David board for the Nottingham Playhouse. Ian McKellen had his time in the piece one of his first leading roles.

• Literary work
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Novel, epic
• Worker literature