五十年代末六十年代初,继“愤怒的青年”之后,英国文坛上出现了工人小说这一新流派。它的特点是工人写工人,也就是说,这些小说家绝大多数出身于工人家庭,本人也当过工人,因此他们也被称为“工人阶级小说家”。他们的小说取材于工人的生活,通过个别工人的生活的描写,表现了时代的特点,因而受到社会上的重视与欢迎。二十多年来,随着时代的变化,工人小说的内容与风格也有变化。工人小说的出现为工人阶级在文坛上开辟了 In the late 1950s and early 1960s, following the “Angry Young Men”, a new genre of worker’s novels emerged in the English literary world. It is characterized by workers who write workers, that is to say, the vast majority of these novelists were born in the worker’s family, I also worked as a worker, so they are also known as “working-class novelist.” Their novels are drawn from the life of workers and are characterized by the characteristics of the times through the descriptions of the lives of individual workers. They are therefore valued and welcomed by the community. Over the past two decades, with the changes of the times, the content and style of the worker’s novels have also changed. The emergence of worker novels opened up the working class in the literary arena