Critical Essay by Avril Henry
On the merely narrative level, flashback in Pincher Martin is the natural result of Martin's isolation and illness, and is the process by which he is gradually br...
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Critical Essay by Michael Quinn
[Pincher Martin] seems … to present, more clearly than any of Golding's other novels, a crystallization of certain distinctive features of his imaginativ...
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Critical Essay by V. S. Pritchett
With Pincher Martin, for all its real claims as a breathless and mysterious tour de force, two or three things went wrong. Mr Golding had taken a dive into the chaos...
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Critical Essay by Norman Podhoretz
["The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin", US title for "Pincher Martin",] is one of the most remarkable books of recent years—a sh...
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Critical Essay by Avril Henry
