Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is the first novel by British author Alan Sillitoe and won the Author's Club First Novel Award.
It was adapted by Sillitoe into the 1960 film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, and in 1964 was adapted by David Brett as a play for Nottingham Playhouse, with Ian McKellen playing one of his first major roles. Silittoe then wrote two more sections for Seatons, Key to the Door and The Open Door (1989).
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Plot
The Novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is divided into two unequal parts: most books, Saturday Night, and a much smaller second part, Sunday Morning.
Saturday night
Saturday Night starts at the men's club of workers in Nottingham. Arthur Seaton was 21 years old, and enjoyed the evening with Brenda, the wife of a co-worker. Challenged for a drinking contest, Arthur defeated "Loudmouth" before falling to a drunken staircase. Brenda took her home with her and they spent the night together. Arthur enjoyed breakfast with Brenda before her husband Jack came home from the weekend in the race.
Arthur works at a lathe in a bicycle factory with his friend Jack. Arthur kept his thoughts during worldly work and over and over again through the mental collage of imagined fantasies, and memories of the past. He gets a good 14 pounds a week, and Robboe, his boss, is afraid he might get in trouble for letting Arthur get so much. Soon Arthur hears the news that Jack has turned to the night, which pleases Arthur because he can now spend more time with Jack's wife. At the same time, Arthur continues with Brenda's sister, Winnie.
During another night at the pub, Arthur meets Doreen, a young unmarried girl with whom he started a relatively innocent courtship - while keeping the secrets of Brenda and Winnie. However, although Jack is unaware of his wife's affair, Winnie's husband catches Bill - and Arthur's action catches up to him as Bill and an assistant jump over Arthur one night, leaving him beaten and laid for days.
Morning Sundays
Sunday Morning follows the course of events after Arthur's attack. When Doreen comes to check on him, Arthur finally comes clean about his affair with Brenda and Winnie. Doreen kept in touch with Arthur despite his dishonesty; Brenda and Winnie disappear from the story. At the end of the novel, Arthur and Doreen make plans to get married.
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Cultural reference
- Miranda Gray at John Fowles's The Collector (1963) finds his book and protagonist, Arthur Seaton "disgusting."
- The British singer, Morrissey, was heavily influenced by the book and the adaptation of his film in 1960. The run-side runway on the B-side of the 1986 vinyl album copy of The Smiths The Queen Is Dead featured a line "They are day- a rotten day "said Aunt Ada (Hylda Baker) in the film. Also the phrase Doreen said before Arthur took him to the exhibition "I want to go where there is life and there are people" inspired the song "There's a Light that's Not Outstanding" on the same album ("I want to see people and I want see life ").
- The title of the debut album Arctic Monkeys, Anything My Person Tells Me, It's Not Me , is a direct quote from the book, and many of his songs are inspired by the protagonist, Arthur. Also the art designs of the album are influenced by the realist images of British working-class neighborhoods and nightlife on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
- During the BBC 2011 interview on Desert Island Disc, comedian Frank Skinner stated that Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was the first book he read at the age of 21, when he enrolled at Birmingham Polytechnic that year as a scholar./li>
In 2013 BBC Radio 4 presents a two-part dramatic adaptation (by Robert Rigby) of the novel.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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