th miner's family. Childhood and youth affected all of his subsequent literary activities. The family did not live well; since childhood, Sid saw poverty, hopeless work, and endless fear of unemployment around him. At the age of 14 he started working. He was a miner's assistant and a blacksmith, but he was passionate about learning. After graduating from evening school, Chaplin began collaborating with the newspaper Ugol, writing essays and short stories. He worked mainly in the genre of the so-called “work novel.” After the Second World War, a genre arose in British literature called the “work novel.” The English writer Sid Chaplin (1916–1986) is the most famous representative of this genre. In his works, Sid Chaplin raised pressing social and philosophical issues of our time. Difficult psychological and social issues are resolved by the heroes of the novels “The Day of the Sardine” (1961) and “Spies and Surveillances” (1962) - young people from a working environment, contemporaries of the writer. In his acclaimed novel “The Day of the Sardine” (1961), Chaplin tells the story of the fate of modern English teenagers, "Generation X", as it was called in the 60s. The main character of the novel, Arthur Haggerston, feels like a sardine, locked in a “tin can” of a standard existence. During his 17-year life, the hero managed to be a baker's apprentice, a loader, and a coal miner's assistant... In terms of mood and character, the book is reminiscent of The Catcher in the Rye. Only this teenager is English. And he also doesn’t know how to behave with girls, what he expects from life, how to study and work, who his friends are and who aren’t. Clashes with his stepfather, who sincerely wants to help him, semi-criminal affairs of his semi-friends, work in heavy production - gray days one after another. And in the end there is no clarification. But the book is somehow bright, although cloudy. It’s good when people are born thinking, and not like one of the heroes Nosar - with one thought in their heads. Although it's not easy for them.

MediaDB / th miner's family. Childhood and youth affected all of his subsequent literary activities. The family did not live well; since childhood, Sid saw poverty, hopeless work, and endless fear of unemployment around him. At the age of 14 he started working. He was a miner's assistant and a blacksmith, but he was passionate about learning. After graduating from evening school, Chaplin began collaborating with the newspaper Ugol, writing essays and short stories. He worked mainly in the genre of the so-called “work novel.” After the Second World War, a genre arose in British literature called the “work novel.” The English writer Sid Chaplin (1916–1986) is the most famous representative of this genre. In his works, Sid Chaplin raised pressing social and philosophical issues of our time. Difficult psychological and social issues are resolved by the heroes of the novels “The Day of the Sardine” (1961) and “Spies and Surveillances” (1962) - young people from a working environment, contemporaries of the writer. In his acclaimed novel “The Day of the Sardine” (1961), Chaplin tells the story of the fate of modern English teenagers, "Generation X", as it was called in the 60s. The main character of the novel, Arthur Haggerston, feels like a sardine, locked in a “tin can” of a standard existence. During his 17-year life, the hero managed to be a baker's apprentice, a loader, and a coal miner's assistant... In terms of mood and character, the book is reminiscent of The Catcher in the Rye. Only this teenager is English. And he also doesn’t know how to behave with girls, what he expects from life, how to study and work, who his friends are and who aren’t. Clashes with his stepfather, who sincerely wants to help him, semi-criminal affairs of his semi-friends, work in heavy production - gray days one after another. And in the end there is no clarification. But the book is somehow bright, although cloudy. It’s good when people are born thinking, and not like one of the heroes Nosar - with one thought in their heads. Although it's not easy for them.

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