First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure recounts a summer in the life of 15-year-old Orvil Pym, who is holidaying with his father and brothers in a Kentish hotel, with little to do but explore the countryside and surrounding area. 'I don't understand what to do, how to live': so says the 15-year-old Orvil - who, as a boy who glories and suffers in the agonies of adolescence, dissecting the teenage years with an acuity, stands as a clear (marvelously British) ancestor of The Catcher I...

L'œuvre de Denton Welch est unique. Le MondeL'été, les bords de la Tamise, Orvil Pym a quinze ans. C'est l'Aventure, la découverte des correspondances entre une croupe et une pêche Melba, la révélation de la beauté devant Aphra, qui profitait de chaque seconde pour se métamorphoser ...Ce sont les derniers jeux de l'enfance, le trouble qui s'immisce, le plaisir, la peur délicieuse.Comparer Soleils brillants de la jeunesse à L'Attr...

'Unlike any other person I had come across, Welch seemed to be speaking particularly to me' Alan Bennett'Vivid ... surprising ... an exquisite balance of pain and beauty' GuardianOrvil Pym does not fit in. A waifish, eccentric, sensitive fifteen-year-old, he hates school and longs to be alone. Spending his Summer holidays in a genteel Surrey hotel with his mysterious father and two brothers who don't understand him, he explores anc...

At the age of twenty, the novelist Denton Welch suffered a cycling accident that left him partially paralyzed; the injuries that he sustained were to leave him in almost constant pain for the rest of his life, as well as bestowing upon him the spinal tuberculosis that would kill him at the age of 33. A Voice Trough a Cloud - increasingly regarded as Welch's masterpiece - is his account of this accident and the period of convalescence soon after. The unsparing chronicle of the world of a ho...

Denton Welch hat ein bewegtes Leben geführt, seine ganz eigene Sicht auf die Dinge korrespondiert mit seiner besonderen Persönlichkeit und zeigt sich in einer Fülle einzigartiger Sätze, die einen ebenso verwundern wie bezaubern. Im Mittelpunkt des Romans steht der neugierige Orvil, der den Sommer mit seinem wortkargen Vater, seinem hochmütig-cholerischen Bruder Charles und seinem gutherzigen Bruder Ben verbringt, der ihn ständig mit Schauergeschichten verängstigt. Am liebsten streift Orvil...

S'il est vrai que le talent d'un écrivain consiste à imposer sa vision du monde en donnant de la magie aux choses les plus banales, alors Denton Welch est bien un maître du genre. L'Événement du jeudiRepton, dans le Derbyshire : on y porte la queue de pie, le nœud papillon, le pantalon noir ajusté, le chapeau de paille. Au bout de deux ans de bizutage et de corrections, on a droit au parapluie. Denton aime porter des vêtements amples, colorés, et surtout pa...