The Coincidence of Opposites

Résumé du livre

The principal assertion of The Coincidence of Opposites is that all of William Golding's later fiction (from Darkness Visible to Fire Down Below) moves towards a state of synthesis, a denial of distinctions, which the author achieves through the reconciliation of ostensibly antithetical positions. Throughout this sequence of novels it is consistently implied that apparently intractable polarities have no genuine a priori existence. McCarron's study is both thoretically inflected and heavily interdisciplinary, incorporating philosophy, sociology, anthropology and theology, in addition to literary theory.