After the Second World War there appearcd in England a new group of English novetists. They have put forward a new kind of hero and natr- ative structure and they have a distinctly new attitude to life. It would be risky to say that there is a self-conscious or organized movement John here; but the nuvels of Kingsley Amis., Thomas Hinde, John Wain and Braine- are very different from those of their predecessors (1) . They break sharply with war novelists are products of the social revolution of the 1940s. They regard the welfare Statc with cyn- ical detachement, and they direct their "anger" towarcs its bleakness. Mostly, they belong to the working-class or lower middle-class. An aris- tocratic society like the English can only survive if it contiriesiy draws fiu m below and is continually broadening(?). The Roletists wlo cone from below manage to rejuvenate the English novel. and pre-war decades