'Pincher Martin' by William Golding - A review.

Pincher Martin did not continuously enthral me, but I yet enjoyed it on an academic level. Despite occasionally feeling at sea by the narrative and not relating to the protagonist, I nevertheless rig myself being drawn in to the story and I cute to discover what would eventually happen to Christopher Pincher Martin.

The first chapter of Pincher Martin is very disorienting. It is close written in the form of stream of conscious, and I initially comprehended it as highbrow gibberish. With the k this instantledge of hindsight, however, I now know that the opening chapter is the moment of Martins death, which has enabled me to understand why his thoughts were presented in such a existencener.

The writing technique becomes notably to a greater extent coherent once Martin discovers the rock. In the following chapters, his experiences are fantastically lucid and are graphically described down to every(prenominal) last detail. We feel the sensations Martin encounters and endures exhaustively, and the practicalities and trivialities of his mountuation are well realised. His bodied predicament and what he feels physically are vividly and palpably portrayed, from the feel of the pebbles against his face, to the comic moments, such as when he gives himself an enema. The reader is invited to sit firmly inside Martins head, his consciousness, and his pain.

As Martin suffers involuntary flashbacks, his character begins to develop in detail. We discover that in his past life he was a contemptible man - a murderer of his ingenuous companion, Nathaniel, and a thief with ostensibly no morals whatsoever. In some ways it is effortful to relate to him as an individual persona, as, seen from the perspective of his rock, he appears to be more representative of an archetypal moral figure than the showcase of well-rounded character that one might expect in fiction.

However, despite...

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