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.

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.

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.

This dystopian classic is 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong? ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' 'The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, 'This is not just entertainment; it's life or death.' ... I've been thinking about it ever since, for fifty years and more.' Stephen King 'One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years.' Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grown-ups going to think? Going off-hunting pigs-letting fires out-and now! A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches, gorging fruit, seeking shelter, and ripping off their uniforms to swim in the lagoon. At night, in the darkness of the jungle, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast. Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before their innocent games devolve into a murderous hunt ... 'Thrills me with all the power a fiction can have ... Exemplary.' Ian McEwan 'An existential fable backlit with death's incandescent glare.' Ben Okri 'Violently real ... An apocalyptic novelist [who writes with] humanist rage and defiance.' Marlon James 'Beautiful and desperate, something quite out of the ordinary.' Stevie Smith 'Beautifully written, tragic and provocative.' E. M. Forster 'A fragment of nightmare.' New Statesman 'A post-apocalyptic, dystopian survivor-fantasy ... [A novel] for all time ... A cult classic.' Guardian 'Stands out mightily in my memory ... Such a strong statement about the human heart.' Patricia Cornwell 'Terrifying and haunting.' Kingsley Amis What readers are saying: 'Every real human being should read this ... This is what we are.' 'It's brilliant, it's captivating, it's thought provoking and brutal and for some, its truly terrifying.' 'It can be read and re-read many times, and every time something new will appear.' 'There is a reason why this is studied at school ... Excellent read.' 'This is one of the few books I've read that I keep on my Kindle to read again.' 'I revisit this every few years and it's always fresh and impressive ... One of the best books I've ever read.'

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.

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.

En Ritos de paso William Golding, autor de El Señor de las Moscas, nos regala una novela emocionante que es, al mismo tiempo, un alarde de recreación histórica.. Ambientada dentro de un viaje a Australia emprendido desde Inglaterra durante las guerras napoleonicas, el diario de uno de los pasajeros, el caballero Edmund Talbot, asi como la carta que dirige a su hermana otro de los pasajeros -un clerigo provinciano- tejen un esplendido relato que pone en juego la debil naturaleza del hombre, la corrupcion inherente al poder y las severas limitaciones que impone a los hombres su pertenencia a una clase social.En Ritos de paso William Golding, autor de El Señor de las Moscas, nos regala una novela emocionante que es, al mismo tiempo, un alarde de recreación histórica.. Ambientada dentro de un viaje a Australia emprendido desde Inglaterra durante las guerras napoleonicas, el diario de uno de los pasajeros, el caballero Edmund Talbot, asi como la carta que dirige a su hermana otro de los pasajeros -un clerigo provinciano- tejen un esplendido relato que pone en juego la debil naturaleza del hombre, la corrupcion inherente al poder y las severas limitaciones que impone a los hombres su pertenencia a una clase social.

A partir de vestigios ancestrales olvidados bajo la tierra, William Golding reconstruye las vidas y las imágenes compartidas de un grupo de neandertales cuyo mundo empieza a desvanecerse cuando olores y visiones desconocidos se hacen presentes y sus miembros van desapareciendo sin explicacion alguna. La entrada de nuevos seres en sus vidas, tan distintos pero con intrigantes rasgos en comun, significara el fin de una era que dejara paso a los verdaderos herederos de la Tierra: los humanos.

An important and illuminating collection of essays and lectures by the winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Golding writes about places as diverse as Wiltshire, where he lived for over half a century, Dutch waterways, Delphi, Egypt ancient and modern, and planet Earth herself. Other essays discuss books and ideas, and provide a fascinating background to the appreciate Goldings own writing and imagination. Includes Goldings Nobel Speech. Golding come through this collection as reserved and wary, but delightful . . . His writing is a joy.Sunday Times

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell transfigured from his ordeal, and begins to realise what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. But did those accumulated choices also begin to deprive him of his free will.

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

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

Commissioned by the leading actor Alastair Sim (1900-1976) The Brass Butterfly was Goldings only original stage play. Starring Sim himself, and also the popular actor George Cole, it opened for a provincial pre-West End run in Oxford in early 1958 and premiered at the Strand Theatre in London in April. In his biography of Golding, John Carey describes it as a comic scherzo dealing with the conflict between science and religion, transposed to the Greco-Roman world of antiquity.

Follow young Olivers rebellious coming-of-age in the village of Stillbourne in this comic novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. Eighteen is a good time for suffering Welcome to the country town of Stillbourne. Restless teenage resident Oliver wants to enjoy himself before going to university, beginning with his pursuit of the Town Criers daughter. But in this claustrophobic community - stifled by the English class system, and where everybody knows everyones business - love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment . . .Golding depicts with subtle skill all the pains of growing up and growing old. He treats us to some superb comic episodes.Daily TelegraphGoldings most approachable novel and a curiously personal one, that returns to the mind again and again as if the shames and idylls were ones own.Guardian Neatly drawn, funny and touching . . . The snap, the tang, and the tension in Goldings prose is always a pleasure.Harpers

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