ABSTRACT
TIGER’s book focuses upon Golding’s first five novels, although a brief concluding chapter offers appraisals of The Pyramid and The Scorpion God. The book places a strong emphasis on the mythic dimension of Golding’s work, and provides a convincing evaluation of its structural complexity. Tiger is also interested in the intertextual nature of Golding’s writing, and devotes considerable space to assessing the “backgrounded” text which, in most cases, Golding is “rewriting”. The chronological structure of Tiger’s book allows her to chart the increasing sophistication of Golding’s narrative technique while also offering the opportunity to note the constant preoccupations of his fiction.
