William Sansom (1912–1976)
Forfatter af The Body
Om forfatteren
Image credit: Penguin Books, 1959
Værker af William Sansom
The Passionate North 5 eksemplarer
A Woman Seldom Found 5 eksemplarer
Lord love us 3 eksemplarer
The Bay of Naples 3 eksemplarer
The Equilibriad 2 eksemplarer
Chendru, the Boy and the Tiger. 2 eksemplarer
Choice: Some New Stories and Prose 2 eksemplarer
The Man with the Moon in Him [short fiction] 1 eksemplar
Der verbotene Leuchtturm Kurzgeschichten 1 eksemplar
The Get-Well-Quick Coloring Book 1 eksemplar
Svartsjuka 1 eksemplar
The Kiss 1 eksemplar
Down at the Hydro [short story] 1 eksemplar
Varie tentazioni : racconti 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957) — Bidragyder — 163 eksemplarer
Flower of Cities - A Book of London: Studies and Sketches by Twenty-Two Authors (1949) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1955, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1955) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Who's Zoo — Illustrator — 2 eksemplarer
New Writing and Daylight : Summer 1943 — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Gala day London — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
The Uncertain Element: An Anthology of Fantastic Conceptions — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
The Amateur: and Other Modern Stories (English Language Learning: Reading Scheme) (1979) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Mystery and Suspense — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Modern Choice 2 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1912-01-18
- Dødsdag
- 1976-04-20
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Camberwell, London, England, UK
- Dødssted
- London, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Bonn, Germany
- Uddannelse
- Uppingham School
- Erhverv
- novelist
short-story writer
biographer
travel writer
screenwriter - Relationer
- Rosoman, Leonard (friend)
- Organisationer
- National Fire Service
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Kort biografi
- British short-story writer and novelist, born in Camberwell, London, educated at Uppingham School. He joined the National Fire Service at the outbreak of war and witnessed the bombing raids on London. At the time, he contributed short stories to New Writing and Horizon. Many of the stories in his first collection, Fireman Flower (1944), display documentary realism, while others are in the surreal vein of Kafka. The stories tend to evoke a drab, seedy post-war London, and often reproduce the distortion of perception suffered by those under severe stress. Among other collections of stories are South (1948), The Passionate North (1950), and The Stories of William Sansom (1963), with an introduction by Elizabeth Bowen. His novels include The Body (1949), a tour de force which plunges the reader into the deranged mind of a married middle-aged barber consumed with obsessive jealousy; A Bed of Roses (1954); The Loving Eye (1956); The Cautious Heart (1958); and The Last Hours of Sandra Lee (1961). He also wrote Westminster in War (1947), and the travel books Away to It All (1964) and Grand Tour Today (1968).
Read more: William Sansom (William Norman Trevor Sansom) Biography - (1912–76), (William Norman Trevor Sansom), New Writing, Horizon, Fireman Flower, South, The Passionate North http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages...).html#ixzz0jtin2Ug4
Medlemmer
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "The Long Sheet" by William Sansom i The Weird Tradition (november 2023)
Anmeldelser
Lister
Hæderspriser
Måske også interessante?
Associated Authors
Statistikker
- Værker
- 51
- Also by
- 52
- Medlemmer
- 502
- Popularitet
- #49,320
- Vurdering
- 4.0
- Anmeldelser
- 8
- ISBN
- 45
- Sprog
- 1
- Udvalgt
- 3
Somebody mentioned Sansom as Aickmanesque and he was also known during his time as "the British Kafka." Neither of these does him justice. The Kafka thing I just don't get at all except that at times his characters are unnamed and somewhat faceless. However there is an Aickmanesque quality at times to some of these stories in that characters are placed in situations where disturbing (to the protagonist) occurrences lead to that person questioning their beliefs or habits. However, right next to it, these may be a simple story about the people of an evening in a pub. There are sad, happy, tragic, and equivocal endings. People are strikingly changed in one story while in others people remain oblivious to the absurdities in their lives. Sometimes people become all too aware of who they are and cannot cope with the truth of it. However, there is no template for a Sansom story.
Except for one story, "A Woman Seldom Found," there isn't a single overtly supernatural-seeming incident in the entire collection, so don't expect spooks and spectres and the unexplained: all things can be explained by logic and coincidence or fate (however unlikely that seems at times).
There are 33 stories here and an excellent introduction by Elizabeth Bowen and a small author bio.
Since this particular Faber Finds edition is available as a print-on-demand (PoD) or ebook, it is generated from a machine scan of one of the original editions. You know what that means: TYPOS. Its worth it. Not as bad as the FF Aickmans, but you are gonna find them; get used to 'em, embrace 'em, read through 'em, after all you know what should have been there.
Sansom seems to be largely forgotten, at least here in the US. His best known work: [b:Fireman Flower and Other Stories|5100263|Fireman Flower and Other Stories|William Sansom|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256371127s/5100263.jpg|5167013] has been out of print for years and even poor copies of second editions command a high price. Faber Finds has reprinted a number of his novels and this collection, but never "Fireman." I couldn't find a single contemporary edition of "Fireman" on Amazon US or UK. I also could not find another ebook of Sansom other than this collection.
… (mere)