Lin Zixuan told Pearl Race about it, and he wanted Pearl Race to translate the novel.

Although he worked hard to learn English during this time in order to write "The Man in the High Castle", he was far from the point where he could write in English on such a serious subject.

In fact, Golding is not the kind of writer who is very literate.

There is no compelling storyline in his novels, there is little development of the characters, and there is no depiction of the environment that realist writers value so much.

He often tells a serious story in a straightforward manner, and his tone is flat and cold, and it is difficult to come across a vivid description.

This is what sets him apart from other realist novelists.

His novels are allegorical novels, which do not seek the richness and variety of pictures of social life, but seek profound philosophical and moral implications.

In his feelings, the world is absurd, horrible, painful and hopeless.

The stagnant, indifferent and dull atmosphere in his novels corresponds to such a world, which better shows the philosophical connotation of the novel and expresses the unreasonableness of the world more profoundly.

This style of writing can be called existentialist literature.

This kind of literature often depicts an absurd world inhabited by anxious, wandering "superfluous characters", thus showing the problems and general anxieties facing humanity, and calling for free choice.

Existentialist literature is mainly represented by the French writers Sartre and Camus.

Golding is one of the existentialist writers who has dealt with the absurd most comprehensively, profoundly, and with a new twist.

Lin Zixuan believes that Pearl Race is not the best translator.

The novel is rather weird, although the storyline is not complicated. There are no esoteric words, but they are full of allegorical descriptions. There can be multiple interpretations, and it is not easy to fully understand the subject matter of the story.

But he didn't have a better choice.

Fortunately, Pearl is a devout Christian. He has been familiar with the Christian scriptures since he was a child, and there are a lot of metaphors related to the Bible in "Lord of the Flies", which Pearl can understand very well.

For example, in Christianity, the "Lord of the Flies" is the source of evil, and the character Simon in the novel is largely an allusion to Christ.

Pearl Sai is very interested in Lin Zixuan's new work.

She heard that the best-selling "Gone with the Wind" in the United States was written by Lin Zixuan on the cruise ship.

The closed environment of the cruise ship is indeed very suitable for writing novels, there is too much time to spend idle time, and there is no busy social interaction on weekdays, so you can calm down.

Lin Zixuan went to the United States this time, because he was carrying "The Man in the High Castle", and he was always worried that something would happen. Can't calm down.

In this case, he was not in the mood to write a novel.

However, this opportunity made him realize that since he had embarked on this path, irritability would not help things, and it was better to calm himself down by writing this novel.

"Lord of the Flies" is not long, only a hundred thousand words.

In order to let Pearl Sai understand the moral of this novel, he deliberately wrote a character introduction and theme ideas.

Golding once said in the preface: "The barbaric nuclear war brought the children to the island, but the children recreated the whole process of history that brought them to this situation, and in the final analysis, it was not some foreign monster, but man himself who turned paradise into a slaughterhouse." ”

That's what he wanted to say.

Lin Zixuan set the story in the aftermath of World War I. A British warship carrying a group of children has sunk on the rocks, and the children have survived, with different identities and backgrounds.

Ralph is the main character in the book, the son of the commander of the British Navy. Rational and courageous, charismatic and leadership.

He relied on his own advantages to become the leader of this group of children, and formulated rules and regulations. I want to maintain the order of civilization.

Piglet is a fat man with glasses who comes from a humble background and suffers from severe asthma and is unable to do manual labor.

He loves to think about things. With wisdom, it represents the image of an intellectual. It's Ralph's brains.

Simon has extraordinary insight and integrity and dares to explore the truth.

He liked to be alone in nature and meditate, like a Christian prophet.

He is another of Ralph's assistants, and in this bleak picture of humanity, Simon appears as a flash of hope.

While most of the children on the island have returned to their primitive barbaric state, and they show their extreme selfishness and cruelty one by one, Simon's altruism is particularly dazzling.

Jack is the leader of the church choir and has a strong desire for power, always fighting for the leadership of the island.

At first, he also tried to establish a civilized order, waiting for help to arrive.

But with the hope of rescue dashed, he exposed his evil side, quickly broke free from Ralph's control, and decided on his own path.

In an environment without adults, children are like wild weeds, and Jack is the craziest of them all.

He employs a variety of vicious conspiracies to eliminate dissidents, consolidate his power, and attempt to dominate the island.

Pigy is Ralph's assistant and a symbol of sanity and wisdom.

Roger is Jack's most ferocious minions and thugs, representing the image of a barbarian.

These characters make up a miniature world on a desert island.

They play various roles in the real world, assume their respective social functions, and reproduce the tragedy of war in the real world through the development and collapse of this small world.

If the dictatorial Jack is seen as Hitler and Ralph as the leader of Britain and the United States, then what happens on a desert island is a mini-World War II.

The desert island is actually a microcosm of 20th-century British society, or the world in a broader sense.

From the perspective of more distant space, the earth is an island, and human beings are trapped on the earth without any foreign aid, so how should human beings choose?

Is it to establish a civilized order, or to return to primitive barbarism?

In Lord of the Flies, Jack takes control of a desert island, Piggy and Simon, who represent human civilization, are killed, and Ralph is hunted down by Jack and put in danger.

Just then, a warship arrives on a desert island and rescues Ralph.

The adults came, and the order of civilization returned.

Ralph and the children wept loudly, weeping for the lost innocence and the darkness of humanity.

And the officer who rescued them only thought that the children were playing a game of war.

Golding believes that the modern system represented by democracy is extremely fragile and can be easily broken by dictators, plunging the world into darkness, and that human beings need to thoroughly recognize their evil side, and only after experiencing the darkness of the soul can they tend to the best and be saved.

This is self-redemption.

For human beings living on the isolated island of the earth, they cannot expect aliens to come to the rescue, but can only redeem themselves and make the world tend to the good and beautiful side. (To be continued.) )