Golding, William (Gerald)

Japanese: ゴールディング（英語表記）Golding， William (Gerald)

Born: September 19, 1911, near Newquay, Cornwall
[Died] June 19, 1993. Falmouth, Cornwall. British novelist. Known for his works that use mythological and allegorical techniques to examine the human condition. After graduating from Oxford University, he became a teacher and joined the Royal Navy in 1940. His debut work, Lord of the Fries (1954), is a parody of Ballantine's adventure novel for boys, Coral Island (1858), and explores the extreme conditions of the nuclear age through the story of boys stranded on a deserted island. It is considered one of the most important novels since World War II. He subsequently published such controversial works as The Inheritors (1955), which looked at humanity through the eyes of the Neanderthals, Pincher Martin (56), Free Fall (59), The Spire (64), The Pyramid (67), and Rites of Passage (80). He also wrote the play The Brass Butterfly (1958). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.

Golding
Golding, Arthur

[Born] Around 1536
[died] about 1605 English translator. Friend of P. Sidney. In addition to translations from Latin, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses (1565-67) and Caesar's The Gallic Wars (1565), he also translated from French. Ovid's translations were used by Shakespeare.

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Japanese:

[生]1911.9.19. コーンウォール，ニューキー近郊
[没]1993.6.19. コーンウォール，ファルマス
イギリスの小説家。神話的，寓意的手法を用いて，人間の条件を問う作品で知られる。オックスフォード大学卒業後，教職につき，1940年海軍に入る。処女作『蠅の王』 Lord of the Fries (1954) は，バランタインの少年冒険小説『サンゴ島』 (1858) をパロディー化し，孤島に投出された少年たちの物語に仮託して，核時代の極限状況を探究したもので，第2次世界大戦後の最も重要な小説の一つとされる。以後，ネアンデルタール人の目を通して人類をみた『後継者たち』 The Inheritors (1955) ，『ピンチャー・マーティン』 Pincher Martin (56) ，『自由な転落』 Free Fall (59) ，『尖塔』 The Spire (64) ，『ピラミッド』 The Pyramid (67) ，『通過儀礼』 Rites of Passage (80) などの問題作を出した。ほかに，戯曲『真鍮の蝶』 The Brass Butterfly (1958) がある。 83年ノーベル文学賞を受賞した。