by William Golding · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429749045
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«Senyor de les mosques» is the novel by William Golding, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
A group of British boys, raised as exemplary children, survive a shipwreck and end up on a deserted island, with no adults. As they try to organize themselves, fear and loneliness unleash their most primitive side: what begins as a game of coexistence ends in a spiral of cruelty.
Catalan edition translated by Manuel de Pedrolo, from the Butxaca collection. This novel was originally published in English in 1954 under the title «Lord of the Flies». William Golding won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
For readers of modern classics and dystopias; it frequently appears among school reading lists.
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
