William Golding, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for fiction has reworked some of the finer traditions of the English Novel by using modes of the allegory, the fable and the myth, to reconstruct his own paradigms and references as a novelist. Golding's peculiar modernist burden lies in his myth making capacities; as also in his obsession with man in extremities, caught and entangled in 'good - and - evil' situations. Golding's inversion of the allegorical mode ...
