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Free Fall is the fourth novel of English novelist William Golding, first published in 1959. Written in the first person, it is a self-examination by an English painter, Samuel Mountjoy, held in a German POW camp during World War II .
- United Kingdom
- William Golding
- 1959
- Faber & Faber
William Golding, all ready a master novelist, begins to hit his stride with his fourth novel, Free Fall. Its heavy themes, pedestrian events and poetic writing make for an experience that is enlightening, intense, and somewhat brain-frying.
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William Golding: Free Fall. This is the story of Sammy Mountjoy and, in particular, his fall from grace. When and where this fall took place is the key point of the book. Golding cheats somewhat as the narrative is not in chronological order. All the way through, as Sammy misbehaves in various ways, the question is asked as to whether this is ...
Sammy Mountjoy, in William Golding’s Free Fall (1959), has fallen from the grace of heaven, the mount of joy, by an act of volition that the title makes clear. The eponym of Doctor Zhivago is so called because his name, meaning “The Living,” carries powerful religious overtones.
Free Fall. Sammy Mountjoy is swept into World War II and somehow, somewhere, he loses his freedom, the faculty of freewill ‘that cannot be debated but only experienced, like a colour or the taste of potatoes’. As he retraces his life in an effort to discover why he no longer has the power to choose and decide for himself, the narrative ...
Dive deep into William Golding's Free Fall with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
William Golding. Harcourt, Brace, 1962 - Fiction - 253 pages. Samuel Mountjoy, an artist, is promised torture in a prisoner-of-war camp, then locked in a cell in total darkness to wait. Sammy...
