Il destino degli eredi

I read this twice in close succession. I read it, then I read it again. The two readings were necessary, and not because William Golding failed in any way, but because his novel, The Inheritors welcomes so much failure from his readers -- I don't say this lightly. I taught this for the first time th Leggi tutto

William Golding has a very low opinion of the homo sapiens . He has made it clear in Lord of the Flies , where a group of boys stranded on an island after a plane crash very soon revert to savagery. In this book, Golding makes another damning accusation: we are the dominant and successful species beca Leggi tutto

The story of the gentle, mostly vegetarian Neanderthal tribe that is all but obliterated in a meeting with wandering Homo sapiens. Told almost entirely from the viewpoint of Lok, a slightly dim Neanderthal "with many words and no pictures," it’s an interesting story and a sad one. But the power of th Leggi tutto

I am in awe of this book, Golding's craft, and his work in general (I have also read "Lord of the Flies" and "Darkness Visible"). The writing itself, whatever one thinks of the plot, is transcendent. I am impressed by what must have been prodigious research on Golding’s part to gain insight in the w Leggi tutto

Golding is a wonderful writer and this is a tremendously thought-provoking work. It has something to tell us about 'the fall of man' and the loss of innocence. Golding imagines the great forests at the crossover point for Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens. It is deeply tragic and quite shockingly violen Leggi tutto