William Golding (460)
Life
Oxford (Science+English Literature)
Cornwall (UK) in 1911 son of a schoolmaster
British navy in 1940 + WW2 (landings in Normandy=free France)
pshycological impact
darker perception of life and human nature + NO innocence + damaged by war
inspired and affected his writing
Lord of the Flies
1st Novel in 1954 (sold over + translated 14)
after other similarly orginal and distinctive novels
1983 Nobel price for Literature 1988 knighted Sir
died of heart failure in 1993
His Concerns
he speaks to imagination with immediacy & certainty
analysis of what is permanent in guman nature in relation with his cosmic situation
man's propensity for evil is far greater than his propensity for goodness
Structure of his Novels
structure= emblem of the spiritual life (imagination)
2 narrative movements
2 different perspectives of the same situation
radical shifts in points of view (end=pardox)