“Few writers who have managed to acquire his reputation can have been so much at the mercy of crude emotion.”

—  Alan Sillitoe

Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1973] 1975) vol. 1, p. 337.
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