To my understanding, the Nobel Prize in Literature will always be indebted to the narrative of science fiction. Except for cases like his own William Golding who used in some of his novels the setting or a marked sci-fi plot background, or even Doris Lessing who also won the Nobel Prize for literature having written a complete CiFi series as Canopus in Argos, no other author oriented at any stage science fiction has been made with this worldwide recognition of letters. Not even himself Julio Verne...
So, at least, those of us who understand this genus CiFi as one of the first order in the literature, we have to settle for recognizing the two acknowledgments mentioned above as a kind of indirect nods to the genus.
Because, already landing on the Golding case, if the glory of this author is based on a specific book, that is The Lord of the Flies, a sociological dystopia where human beings can remake their structures of coexistence from the first age, without further ado conditioning factors ... Then I will delve into the nuances of this great novel, when I get to the ranking of the ...
Top 3 Recommended Novels by William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Starting to write your masterpiece has to have a paradoxical point. You have been able to tell the round story... What is left for you to do in literature? Luckily for Golding, recognition for the novel came years later and, probably, thanks to that delayed recognition, she encouraged him to create new novels to reach the general public.
But the truth is that yes, the proposal was great and the result meets expectations. Some boys lost on an island after a plane crash. Young enough not to have internalized all the defects and social vices, old enough to understand that their survival will depend on their organization.
A very interesting novel endowed with fast-paced action as well as an anthropological essay on politics, coexistence, social organization, conflicts and, above all, a great ideology about human beings in general. A perfect novel for young people, adults and old people.
Martin the castaway
With the lees of his great novel, and perhaps influenced by thematic similarities around the sea, the remoteness of civilization and the loneliness of another great novel like Robinson Crusoe, Golding was encouraged a few years later with this novel.
Of course, the more than twenty years of Crusoe's story are reduced in this case to concentrate the greatest load of tension that loneliness supposes, the fight against natural elements that seem not to recognize the human as one of its members, as well as the The human being is unable to usefully relate to its environment without "manufactured" resources.
Martín struggles to survive and to survive, because in this novel Golding brings a special connotation of the inner struggle when loneliness looms over one.
Rites of passage
At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, in a Europe embroiled in one of its first great conflicts, the Napoleonic wars, different travelers on a ship bound for Australia tell us about their experiences in that blog to the other side of the world.
Under an epistolary thread, some of those who undertook the adventure towards that new world make up a very interesting mosaic between the adventure and the sociological analysis of those times of marked differences between classes.
A beautiful story of the reasons for such a journey by each other. The dark economic and political interests of some and the faith in a new land to inhabit by others. An exciting journey in the sense of its own adventure but also thanks to the author's ability to convey precisely that, many other emotions of travelers to the antipodes.
