Word: goldinger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This revelation interrupts and transforms Barclay's struggle. An eminent though declining novelist, Barclay has been beseiged by a young American academic, Rick Tucker, who badly wants to be the foremost expert on Barclay. As the novel begins, Barclay discovers Tucker rooting through the dustbin looking for torn-up papers...
Golding use of the first-person narrative is adventurous but not entirely successful. There are places in the story where Barclay's joblessness and blindness to certain, considerations appear obtrusively. Barclay is often funny, but often jacks the relish and will that might constitute a more interesting study. At the...
Barclay's stripped-down emotional life is also unfortunate, as this makes the analysis and delection of evil a cruder process. Barelay admits to being "a specialist in loneliness." However, a Large number of use to control sell-criticism and self-condemnation; Golding's novel would be more interesting if...
Those who do not share Mr. Golding's religious views will be alarmed at the starkness of the contrasts he offers; those who are prone to agree with him on religion will be curious how religion is to be applied to society and how faith is to be reconciled with...
Tension between a spiritual core and a realistic texture produces a certain wobbliness in The Paper Men, an instability most evident in Golding's treatment of Tucker. The object of rather savage satire at the beginning. Tucker at one point surprises everyone by coming forward to say "I know how...