"Lord of the Flies" Author Tried to Rape Teenage Girl
source: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6797774.ece
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"William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, the allegorical novel about childhood, admitted that he had once tried to rape a girl.
He confessed to the incident in an unpublished memoir which he wrote for his wife in an effort to explain how his own “monstrous” character had developed.
The attack, on a 15-year-old named Dora, is among the revelations about the Nobel prize-winning novelist in a new biography. It also turns out that when he was a school-teacher, Golding would pitch the boys in his care against each other in a real-life forerunner of his famous work.
John Carey, the literary critic and an emeritus professor of English literature at Oxford, has had access to the previously unseen archive of Golding, who died in his native Cornwall in 1993, aged 81. It comprises three unpublished novels, two autobiographical works and a journal of 2m words written over 20 years."
The article is fascinating. But to sum up: William Golding was was one f**ked up cat..
He confessed to the incident in an unpublished memoir which he wrote for his wife in an effort to explain how his own “monstrous” character had developed.
The attack, on a 15-year-old named Dora, is among the revelations about the Nobel prize-winning novelist in a new biography. It also turns out that when he was a school-teacher, Golding would pitch the boys in his care against each other in a real-life forerunner of his famous work.
John Carey, the literary critic and an emeritus professor of English literature at Oxford, has had access to the previously unseen archive of Golding, who died in his native Cornwall in 1993, aged 81. It comprises three unpublished novels, two autobiographical works and a journal of 2m words written over 20 years."
The article is fascinating. But to sum up: William Golding was was one f**ked up cat..
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