威廉·戈尔丁：费伯书信 诺贝尔文学奖得主

William Golding: The Faber Letters

基本信息

by Kevin van Campenhout (Author)

Series:Iconic Motors

Format:Hardback 240 pages, 200 Illustrations, color

Publisher:Lannoo Publishers

Imprint:Lannoo Publishers

ISBN:9789020930627

Published:10 Nov 2025

Dimensions:320 x 240 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

一位诺贝尔奖获奖小说家与他四十余年的编辑之间非凡的文学合作。

在我的生命中，有三个人对我影响深远，而您就是其中之一。在某种程度上，我作为一名作家至少部分是您的杰作。

——威廉·戈尔丁致查尔斯·蒙蒂思

1953年，威廉·戈尔丁的小说《蝇王》被费伯出版社（Faber & Faber）新任年轻编辑查尔斯·蒙蒂思从一堆未经请求的稿件中拯救出来。该书销量超过2500万册。在接下来的四十年里，蒙蒂思与戈尔丁密切合作，创作了他的每一部小说。

这些信件讲述了他们非凡的合作历程。它们记录了戈尔丁从默默无闻的中年校长到被授予诺贝尔奖爵位的历程，也讲述了一段深厚而互惠互利的友谊，从“亲爱的蒙蒂思”和“亲爱的戈尔丁”变成了“亲爱的查尔斯”和“亲爱的比尔”。

在这本制作精美、线装精装的著作中，蒂姆·肯德尔运用公共和私人档案，揭示了二十世纪伟大的小说家之一与其出版商之间的关系。两人都曾因不同的原因将自己视为局外人。他们的通信，不仅揭示了写作过程的奥秘，也揭示了文学界的变幻莫测，令人着迷。

这些信件慷慨大方、风趣幽默、尖刻尖刻、亲密无间，甚至常常带有玩世不恭的意味，内容涵盖了闲聊、阅读推荐、希腊岛屿冒险故事，以及对书名、人物和戈尔丁糟糕拼写的详细讨论。

The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years.

Three people have been of major importance and influence in my life and you are one of them. There is a way in which I am as a writer at least partly your creation.

-- William Golding to Charles Monteith

In 1953, William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies was rescued from a 'slush pile' of unsolicited manuscripts by Charles Monteith, a new young editor at the publishing house Faber & Faber. It went on to sell over 25 million copies. Over the next forty years Monteith worked closely with Golding on every one of his novels.

These letters tell the story of their remarkable collaboration. They chart Golding's transformation from unknown middle-aged schoolmaster to knighted Nobel Prizewinner, and they tell the story of a deep and mutually rewarding friendship, as 'Dear Monteith' and 'Dear Golding' become 'Dear Charles' and 'Dear Bill'.

In this beautifully produced, stitch-bound volume, Tim Kendall draws on both public and private archives to reveal the relationship between one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and his publisher, both men who considered themselves, for different reasons, to be outsiders. Their correspondence sheds fascinating light on both the mysteries of the writing process and the vagaries of the literary world.

Generous, amusing, acerbic, intimate and often irreverent, these letters encompass gossip, reading recommendations and stories of Greek island adventures as well as detailed discussion of titles, characters and Golding's dreadful spelling.

作者简介

威廉·戈尔丁（1911-1993）出生于康沃尔郡，就读于马尔伯勒文法学校和牛津大学布雷齐诺斯学院。在成为作家之前，他曾担任演员、讲师、小艇水手、音乐家和教师。1940年，他加入皇家海军，参与了诺曼底登陆行动和荷兰解放战争。他的第一部小说《蝇王》成为现代经典，销量数百万册，并被翻译成四十四种语言。1963年，彼得·布鲁克将其改编成电影。戈尔丁还创作了十一部小说、一部戏剧和两本散文集。他于1980年凭借《成年礼》荣获布克奖，并于1983年荣获诺贝尔文学奖。1988年，他被授予爵士称号，并于1993年去世。

查尔斯·蒙蒂斯（1921-1995）出生于安特里姆郡利斯本，曾就读于牛津大学玛格达伦学院。二战期间，他随皇家伊尼斯基林燧发枪团在印度和缅甸服役，身负重伤。1953年，他加入费伯出版社，并在那里度过了余生。除了威廉·戈尔丁的作品外，他还编辑过塞缪尔·贝克特、约翰·奥斯本、特德·休斯、谢默斯·希尼、P·D·詹姆斯、菲利普·拉金、汤姆·冈恩、让·热内和艾伦·贝内特等人的作品。

蒂姆·肯德尔是埃克塞特大学英语文学教授兼西南写作中心主任。他是评论研究《保罗·马尔登》（1996 年）、《西尔维娅·普拉斯》（2001 年）和《现代英国战争诗》（2006 年）的作者，并出版了诗集《陌生的土地》（2005 年）。

WILLIAM GOLDING (1911-1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, lecturer, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, became a modern classic, selling millions of copies, and was translated into forty-four languages. It was made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993.

CHARLES MONTEITH (1921-1995) was born in Lisburn, County Antrim, and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. During the Second World War he served in India and Burma with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and was badly injured. He joined Faber & Faber in 1953 and worked there for the rest of his career. As well as William Golding, he edited the works of Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, P. D. James, Philip Larkin, Thom Gunn, Jean Genet and Alan Bennett.

TIM KENDALL is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for South West Writing at the University of Exeter. He is the author of the critical studies Paul Muldoon (1996), Sylvia Plath (2001), and Modern English War Poetry (2006), and has published a volume of poetry, Strange Land (2005).