Darkness Visible (novel)
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| Darkness Visible | |
| Author | William Golding |
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| Cover artist | Russel Drysdale |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Faber |
| Publication date | 1979 |
| Published in English |
1979 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 265 |
| ISBN | 0 571 11646 9 |
Darkness Visible is a 1979 novel by British author Sir William Golding. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the author also collected the 1980 Booker Prize and 1983 Nobel Prize for literature.
The novel narrates a struggle between good and evil, using naïveté, sexuality and spirituality throughout. It marked Golding's re-emergence as a novelist, eight years after the publication of his previous book, the collection The Scorpion God.
A dark and complex novel, it centres on Matty - introduced in chapter one as a naked child emerging horribly burned from a bomb explosion during the London Blitz in World War II.
Golding's later novels did not achieve the fame and success of his earlier novels, including Lord of the Flies, and his personal favourite, The Inheritors.
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