El Señor de las Moscas

william golding

Fábula moral acerca de la condición humana, El señor de las moscas es además un prodigioso relato literario susceptible de lecturas diversas y aun opuestas. Si para unos la parábola que William Golding estructura en torno a la situación límite de una treintena de muchachos solos en una isla desierta representa una ilustraci ón de las tesis que sitúan la agresividad criminal entre los instintos básicos del hombre, para otros constituye una requisitoria moral contra una educación represiva que no hace sino preparar futuras explosiones de barbarie cuando los controles se relajan.

Genres fictionclassicsyoung adultschooldystopialiteratureread for schoolnovelshigh schooladventure

344 pages, Hardcover

First published September 17,1954

This edition

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Published: May 17, 2006 by Alianza
ISBN: 9788420666570
ASIN: 8420666572
Language: Spanish; Castilian

Characters More characters

Ralph

Ralph is the athletic, charismatic protagonist of Lord of the Flies. Elected the leader of the boys at the beginning of the novel, Ralph is the primary representative of order, civilization, and productive leadership in the novel. While most of the other ...
Piggy

Ralphs “lieutenant.” A whiny, intellectual boy, Piggys inventiveness frequently leads to innovation, such as the makeshift sundial that the boys use to tell time. Piggy represents the scientific, rational side of civilization....
Roger

One of the hunters and the guard at the castle rock fortress, Roger is Jacks equal in cruelty. Even before the hunters devolve into savagery, Roger is boorish and crude, kicking down sand castles and throwing sand at others. After the other boys los...
Jack Merridew

The novels antagonist, one of the older boys stranded on the island. Jack becomes the leader of the hunters but longs for total power and becomes increasingly wild, barbaric, and cruel as the novel progresses. Jack, adept at manipulating the other boys, r...
Simon

A shy, sensitive boy in the group. Simon, in some ways the only naturally “good” character on the island, behaves kindly toward the younger boys and is willing to work for the good of their community. Moreover, because his motivation is rooted in his deep...

About the author

william golding

Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".