by William Golding · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497873239
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«Senyor de les mosques» is a novel by William Golding published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (240 pages, in Catalan).
A group of British children are left isolated on a desert island after a shipwreck. With no adults, they try to organize themselves and set rules, but coexistence descends into power struggles and violence. The novel explores the tension between civilization and instinct, the loss of innocence and the human capacity for evil.
The novel was originally published in 1954; this Catalan edition, from 2008, includes the translation by Manuel de Pedrolo and belongs to the La Via Làctia collection.
The work is classified as children's and young adult fiction and as general narrative; it is suitable reading for young people and adults.
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.
