Patrick Hamilton was an English playwright and novelist. He was born in 1904 and died of cirrhosis of the liver due to alcoholism in 1962. Marxist, “anti-capitalist”, and marginal himself, he was seduced by the lower social classes and the atmosphere of a London that no longer exists. In recent years, his work is being revived and studied for his distinctive style and Dickens-like narrative voice, which the author uses to convey aspects of London’s “street culture”.
Patrick Hamilton was an English playwright and novelist. He was born in 1904 and died of cirrhosis of the liver due to alcoholism in 1962. Marxist, “anti-capitalist”, and marginal himself, he was seduced by the lower social classes and the atmosphere of a London that no longer exists. In recent years, his work is being revived and studied for his distinctive style and Dickens-like narrative voice, which the author uses to convey aspects of London’s “street culture”.
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Black comedy, and at the same time, a metropolitan drama, Hangover Square, is the masterpiece of Patrick Hamilton. The author reconstitutes the wretched, smoggy world of bars, cheap hotels, and drunken philosophers, immortalizing the ethos of an entire generation and capturing the signs of destruction that were looming over London’s life shortly before World War II broke out.
Describing an epic battle of personalities in the harsh environment of a claustrophobic pension, Hamilton created one of the most sensitive books ever written on the ordeals of a solitary heart.
