Contents

Editor's Foreword

Frédéric REGARD

9

Preface

Norman PAGE

13

Sticking a Story between the Covers

Hilda D. SPEAR

17

Lord of the Flies: From Ballantyne to Conrad

Norman PAGE

25

The Obscenity of Writing: A Reappraisal of Golding's First Novel

Frédéric REGARD

31

Vision in the Un‑Making: Free Fall

Catherine BERNARD

49

Playing with Codes: Rites of Perversion and Perverse Masterplot

in Golding's "Miss Pulkinhorn"

Josiane PACCAUD‑HUGUET

63

"There are no foundations": The Spire,

the Lexicon and the Interpretation of Scripture

S. J. BOYD

83

Flesh and Stone in The Spire

Hubert TEYSSANDIER

93

Turning the Tables of the Law:

The Subject in Question in "The Scorpion God"

Claude MAISONNAT

101

The Burnt Ones. William Golding's Darkness Visible

and Patrick White's The Aunt's Story

Josette LERAY

117

Tragic Experience and Poetic Innocence in Darkness Visible

Thérèse VICHY

129

Intertextuality and Into Personality: The Paper Men

Kevin MCCARRON

139

Face to face with the indescribable, inexplicable, the isness:

Intimate Relationships with the Divine in The Paper Men

Franz WOHRER

151

Golding's Trilogy as a Bildungsroman

Nadia D'AMELIO

183

"In landlessness alone resides the highest Truth":

Golding's Sea Trilogy and the Melville Legacy

Marc MAUFORT

195

William Golding: A Farewell

Jeanne DELBAERE‑GARANT

205

Critical Index

213

Index of Golding's Fiction

215

General Index

216