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THE PAPER MEN by William Golding; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 191 pages; $13.95
New writings by Nobel laureates always cause a stir of comment, but this novel by Author William Golding arrives in the slip stream of controversy as well. The decision last fall by the Swedish Academy to confer the 1983 prize on Golding aroused unusual ire; one academy member was angered...
The Paper Men is not likely to cause defections from entrenched positions on either side. Those unmoved by Golding's work will have little trouble remaining calm once again; a large audience of devoted fans will find their author's gnomic mystifications as fascinating as ever. But no...
Wilfred Barclay is an aging, alcoholic English writer who has experienced a Golding-like stroke of good fortune; Coldharbour, his first novel, written just after World War II, became a commercial and critical success and apparently goes on selling as vigorously as Lord of the Flies, Golding's first...
It is no secret that the Swedish Academy's decisions have often been slanted toward geopolitical rather than literary concerns. This hedge against Western hegemony proved instructive; every so often the world had to confront an unknown writer of an obscure tongue. But the award to Golding, a comfortable...