William Golding

"El señor de las moscas" es Premio Nobel de Literatura 1983, una fábula moral acerca de la condición humana.Urdida en torno a la situación límite de una treintena de muchachos en una isla desierta, El Señor de las Moscas es una magnifica novela que admite lecturas diferentes e incluso opuestas. En efecto, si algunos pueden ver en esta indagacion de William Golding en la condicion humana la ilustracion de que la agresividad criminal se halla entre los instintos basicos del hombre, otros podran considerarla como una parabola que cuestiona un tipo de educacion represiva que no hace sino incubar explosiones de barbarie prestas a estallar en cuanto los controles se relajan.

Esta inquietante fábula moral, acerca de la condición humana, narra la historia de un grupo de jóvenes y niños que queda varado en una isla desierta tras un accidente de avión. Estos chicos pronto se veran expuestos a situaciones de aislamiento extremo. Asi, y a tientas, intentaran organizarse para sobrevivir y convivir de forma pacifica, lo que se volvera imposible en cuanto los mas abyectos instintos humanos se manifiesten con una fuerza inusitada. El Señor de las Moscas es un clasico contemporaneo y la obra maestra de su autor, William Golding, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1983. Esta edicion cuenta con una renovada traduccion de Martin Schifino y con las ilustraciones del virtuoso artista argentino Jorge Gonzalez, que transitan desde el bucolismo dictado por la naturaleza hasta la pavorosa incertidumbre que provoca la inocencia.

Durante la Tercera Guerra Mundial, un grupo de niños evacuados naufraga en una isla desierta de los Mares del Sur y se enfrenta allí con el desafío de reorganizar su vida en común, a partir de cero. Deberan reinventar la sociedad y escoger los mecanismos para vivir en comun. Sus personajes principales son alegorias de los diferentes aspectos de la humanidad: Piggy, gordito y asmatico, es el representante de la sensatez y el sentido comun; Ralph es el defensor del orden y la civilizacion; Jack es el fanatico y cabecilla de una horda de niños-cazadores, fascinados por la barbarie; Roger representa la crueldad y el sadismo sin limites; Simon encarna la bondad natural de la humanidad... Durante el dia, exploran las playas deslumbrantes y paradisiacas. Pero por la noche son atemorizados por pesadillas de una bestia primitiva. Huerfanos de la sociedad, añoran todo lo que han perdido y deben forjar su propia manera de vivir; pero muy pronto el grupo se divide y sus inocentes juegos adquieren un giro peligroso. La aventura esta servida.Celebrando el 70 aniversario de la publicacion de El Señor de las Moscas, de William Golding, Aimee de Jongh firma el guion y las ilustraciones de la primera adaptacion, completa y a todo color, de un clasico de la literatura universal que representa de forma magistral la lucha de la civilizacion contra la barbarie y la perdida de la inocencia infantil.

Golding''s best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys'' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.

Una treintena de muchachos son los únicos supervivientes de un naufragio en el que perecen todos los adultos que consiguen llegar a una isla. Enseguida se plantea cómo sobrevivir en tales condiciones, y no tardan en creaser dos grupos con sus respectivos lideres. Ralph se convierte en el cabecilla de los que estan dispuestos a recolectar y a construir refugios, mientras Jack se convierte en el jefe de los cazadores, animados por un espiritu aventurero. Las tensiones entre ambos bandos no tardan en aparecer.Partiendo de este esquema, el Premio Nobel William Golding crea una fabula moral sobre el lado mas oscuro de la naturaleza humana. Una novela deslumbrante en la que se ha visto desde una requisitoria moral contra la educacion represiva hasta una parabola acerca de los instintos basicos del ser humano.William Golding (1911-1993) trastoco por completo el panorama literario de su tiempo con la publicacion de El señor de las moscas (1954), que se convirtio de inmediato en un espectacular exito internacional y se erigio en muy poco tiempo en todo un clasico contemporaneo. Posteriormente publico las novelas Los herederos (1955), Martin el naufrago (1956), Caida libre (1959) y Ritos de paso (1980), entre otras. Es autor ademas de algunas obras teatrales y un volumen de poemas.

La llamada "Trilogía del mar", la larga travesía hacia Australia iniciada desde Inglaterra durante las guerras napoleónicas, compuesta por "Ritos de paso", "Cuerpo a cuerpo" y "Fuego en las entrañas" es una serie de novelas, las cuales, pese a integrar una unidad, admiten cada una de por si una lectura independiente. William Golding nos regala tres volumenes emocionantes que son, al mismo tiempo, un alarde de recreacion historica. La atmosfera cerrada del maltrecho navio que forzosamente mantiene a unos y otros juntos y prisioneros parece ir cargandose a medida que el cercano final se hace mas incierto.Un relato esplendido que pone en juego la debil naturaleza humana, la corrupcion inherente al poder y las severas limitaciones que impone a los hombres su pertenencia a una clase social.La llamada "Trilogía del mar", la larga travesía hacia Australia iniciada desde Inglaterra durante las guerras napoleónicas, compuesta por "Ritos de paso", "Cuerpo a cuerpo" y "Fuego en las entrañas" es una serie de novelas, las cuales, pese a integrar una unidad, admiten cada una de por si una lectura independiente. William Golding nos regala tres volumenes emocionantes que son, al mismo tiempo, un alarde de recreacion historica. La atmosfera cerrada del maltrecho navio que forzosamente mantiene a unos y otros juntos y prisioneros parece ir cargandose a medida que el cercano final se hace mas incierto.Un relato esplendido que pone en juego la debil naturaleza humana, la corrupcion inherente al poder y las severas limitaciones que impone a los hombres su pertenencia a una clase social.

Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold and the terror of his isolation. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea anemones. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece. While most readers are aware of William Golding as the writer of Lord of the Flies, it is Pincher Martin, his third novel, that speaks most directly to contemporary readers. This shocking, unusual bullet of a book is the definitive survival novel and has an ending that is guaranteed to leave you reeling.

Las novelas de Golding exponen a sus protagonistas a situaciones de aislamiento extremo, tanto físico como espiritual; así se encontrarán con los instintos más oscurosy, como en El señor de las moscas, con las leyes primordiales de la existencia y la convivencia, sustentadas, no pocas veces, en la aniquilacion del contrario.William Golding destaca por su examen profundo del comportamiento de personajes que ya no obedecen a las convenciones de la civilizacion, y cuya conducta los lleva a un conflicto entre fuerzas del bien y del mal.Las ilustraciones del virtuoso artista argentino Jorge Gonzalez transitan desde el bucolismo dictado por la naturaleza a la pavorosa incertidumbre a que da lugar la inocencia.

A dazzling collection of occasional writings by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist on subjects ranging from Thermopylae to the English Channel, and from Coral Island to Jules Verne.A book of occasional essays which afford us many fascinating insights into Golding the man . . .It is highly individual yet profoundly modest; it has an unusual, slightly angular candour, full of painful knowledge and a beautiful humanity . . . event the slightest piece bears the mark of his rare, austere mind, his remarkable imagination . . . Even these occasional essays are enough to remind us that . . . there is not, at the moment, a writer to touch him.New Society

With an introduction by Meg RosoffWilliam Goldings final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she is rescued from the contempt and neglect of her family by her Delphic role. Her ambiguous attitude to the god and her belief in him seem to move in parallel with the decline of the god himself - but things are more complicated than they appear. A remarkable work ... A compelling storyteller as well as a clear-eyed philosopher of the dangerous puzzles of being human.The TimesA wonderful central character. The story stretches out as clean and dry and clear as the beach in Lord of the Flies.IndependentFeline, deadpan and at moments hilarious.Observer

Introduced by Annie Proulx, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon . . .Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia in the early nineteenth century. In his journal, he records mounting tensions aboard the ancient, stinking warship, as officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped darkness below decks. But when something happens to Reverend Colley that brings him into a hell of self-degradation, it seems that shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself . . .It is the emotional veracity of life at sea that powers Goldings exceptional writing ... The fury, mystery and challenge of life on board.Kate MosseGolding writes the past as present [with] uncanny skill and tremendous intuition.Ben OkriA master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom - necessary, provoking, urgent, rich, complex and rare.The TimesGoldings best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies. Melvyn BraggAn extraordinary novel.ObserverTo The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy - Book One

Succumb to one churchmans apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding (recorded by Benedict Cumberbatch as an audiobook).There were three sorts of people. Those who ran, those who stayed, and those who were built in.Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire. His master builder fearfully advises against it, for the old cathedral was miraculously built without foundations. But Jocelin is obsessed with fashioning his prayer in stone. As his halo of hair grows wilder and his dark angel darker, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, watched over by the gargoyles - until the stone pillars shriek, the earth beneath creeps, and the spires shadow falls like an axe on the medieval world below ...Astounding ... So recklessly beautiful, so sad and so strange ... Holds such a place in my soul that its more or less a sacred text.Sarah PerryA kind of miracle ... Genius.GuardianQuite simply, a marvel.NYRBSuperb ... A classic. Rebecca WestA master fabulist .. An iconoclast.John FowlesA visionary ... His masterwork [of] faith, folly and desperate desire ... Golding at his best. Benjamin Myers

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other.When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deers brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds. But strange things are happening: inexplicable scents and sounds. Unimaginable beasts are half-glimpsed in the forest; upright creatures of bone-faces and deerskins. What the people dont know is that their day is already over ...Extraordinary ... Genius ... Remarkable in the literature of the twentieth century.Ben OkriA stun gun to read ... Truly a masterpiece.Monique RoffeyAn earthquake in the petrified forests of the English novel.Arthur KoestlerAn astonishing, underrated novel.Robert MacFarlaneBeautiful, powerful ... A visionary dream . Shakespearean.Ted HughesA master fabulist, and a brilliantly creative interpreter of remote history ... An iconoclast.John FowlesA tour de force ... Genius. Daily TelegraphAlarming, eye-opening, desolating, mind-invading and unique. New Statesman

This below from The Guardian in the UK: Both are famous for chronicling the darker side of adolescence, but where William Golding won a Nobel prize for his work, so far Stephen King has had to settle for bestsellerdom. Now King is writing a new introduction to Golding's seminal novel Lord of the Flies, as part of celebrations later this summer to mark 100 years since Golding's birth. King rarely contributes introductions but, said publisher Faber & Faber, jumped at the chance to write one for Lord of the Flies when he was approached. The bestselling horror writer named Castle Rock, the fictional Maine town which features in many of his books, after the area that Jack makes his fort in Golding's novel, while a copy of Golding's book plays a role in King's novel Hearts in Atlantis. "The dark powers of childhood are what King has been so interested in writing about," said Hannah Griffiths, who is publishing the book for Faber in August. "We only approached him because we knew he loved the book - writers like him must get 50 requests a day. [But] he was back on email really quickly and said 'I don't do a lot of these but this one I've got to do'." King delivered his introduction ahead of deadline, and has written about how he first came across and read Lord of the Flies as well as giving his critical perspective on the novel. "It's quite autobiographical," said Griffiths, who described the introduction as "beyond my wildest dreams". There are "so many boring combos" of authors and introductions out there, she added, but King and Golding "is just the best combination of writers ever". You can read the complete article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/11/stephen-king-william-golding-centenary OVERVIEW: Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive. With a foreword by Stephen King. Perigee trade paperback. 304 pages. This is not the finished cover art featured.

" Et si j'écrivais l'histoire de jeunes garçons sur une île ? Je les laisserais se comporter exactement comme ils voudraient. " William Golding a relevé ce défi, et voici nos collégiens anglais " sans grandes personnes " sur une île déserte du Pacifique. C'est l'aventure, c'est la liberté - serait-ce le paradis ?.

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys'' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics.