Golding, William (Vol. 8) | Golding, William 1911–
Golding, William 1911–
A British novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer, Golding is most famous for his Lord of the Flies which, according to Steven Marcus, is the "only recent novel of imaginative originality that I am aware of which implies that society, insane and self-destroying as it undeniably is, is necessary." (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 3, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
William Golding has just turned sixty, an age when a man has made his life, done the best of his work, shaped and expressed his mind if he is ever going to. In Golding's case the work is modest in quantity (he has written a good deal less than Forster, for example), and has come out of a creative career of less than twenty years; nevertheless, it is all of a piece, a unified and impressive accounting of a unique imagination. When those first novels appeared, the originality of their conception was so great that many readers...
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