William Golding Part 1

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Patricia Marx and author William Golding discuss his development as a writer and the impetus behind his great literary text, Lord of the Flies. The interview reveals how the Nobel Prize winning author's novels are thematically informed by his scholarship of ancient Greek texts, his experience in the Second World War, and his choice to remain on the outside of literary society. Golding's erudition and philosophical affinity command the conversation as he trowels deeply into the implications of Free Will in a God-encompassed and God-supported universe. Marx's probing questions help to trace a narrative of Golding's personal theology throughout his body of work.


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