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Happy 100th to The Lord of the Fly in the Ointment, Sir William Golding
At some point during a book signing in Stockholm on the Tuesday following the Nobel award ceremony the newly laureled William Golding had to use the “loo”. Over five hundred people had queued up to...
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Transcending Allegory: William Golding’s “THE SPIRE” (part 1)
Allegory, the use of symbolic figures or actions to convey abstract, often moral, principles or ideas, can, in the hands of a skillful writer, add a layer of meaning to a narrative. But, how skilled...
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Transcending Allegory: William Golding’s THE SPIRE (part 2)
I began my previous post, “Transcending Allegory: William Golding’s The Spire (part 1)”, with a quick rundown of the pitfalls of allegory, how it can grab a narrative by its throat, twist it about, and...
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DARKNESS VISIBLE: William Golding’s Fiery Meditation
A question for you: If a book’s opening pages amaze you, and its closing pages bring you near tears, have you read a great book? The need to pose the question at all is probably its own answer....
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