Unit 5 The Sad Young Men背景介绍(14)

The group not only expressed discontent with the staid ( 不 动 的 ) , hypocritical institutions of English society -- the so-called Establishment -- but betrayed disillusionment with itself and with its own achievements, included among the angry young men were the playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker and the novelists Kingsley Amis, John Braine, John Wain, and Alan Sillitoe. In the 1960s these writers turned to more individualized themes and were no longer considered a group.