Deft depiction of a conflicted genius
The William Golding who emerges from John Carey’s superlatively readable biography was a man who made a life-long habit of being hard on himself.
William Golding The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
By John Carey
Faber & Faber, €30
The William Golding who emerges from John Carey’s superlatively readable biography was a man who made a life-long habit of being hard on himself.
His journal - kept every day for 22 years, and excerpted here for the first time - features numberless bouts of self-recrimination, along the order of ‘‘I am entirely disgusted with myself’’ ...
