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Denton Welch (1915-1948), angielski pisarz i malarz, autor trzech powieści, dziennika i kilkudziesięciu opowiadań. Zaczął pisać po wypadku, któremu uległ jako dwudziestolatek. Cała jego kariera literacka trwała niespełna dekadę. Pisał głównie o sobie, nadwrażliwym, nieprzystosowanym społecznie chłopcu. Tutaj wciela się w piętnastoletniego Orvila Pyma, który spędza wakacje w eleganckim hotelu z ojcem i dwoma starszymi braćmi. Styl Welcha jest prosty i klarowny, łączy w sobie naiwność dziecka i finezję estety. Autor oddaje bogactwo nastoletniej percepcji świata, ani...

'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' Guardian Orvil 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 ancient churches, spies on a man rowing in the river and collects antiques, escaping into his own singular aesthetic world. First published in 1945, this is an...

First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915-1948). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is 15 years old, and this novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at public school--but as in all of Welch's work, what is most important are the details of his characters' surroundings. Welch is a Proustian writer of uncanny powers of observation who, as William S. Burroughs wrote, -makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes.- Film director John...

Denton Welch (1915-48) died at the age of thirty-three after a brief but brilliant career as a writer and painter. The revealing, poignant, impressionistic voice that buoys his novels was much praised by critics and literati in England and has since inspired creative artists from William S. Burroughs to John Waters. His achievements were all the more remarkable because he suffered from debilitating spinal and pelvic injuries incurred in a bicycle accident at age eighteen.

Though German bombs were ravaging Britain, Welch wrote in his published work about the idyllic landscapes and local...