William Golding - 1983 Nobel Lecture
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"Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders. It performs no less an act than the rescue and the preservation of the individuality and dignity of the single being, be it man, woman or child. No other art, I claim, can so thread in and out of a single mind and body, so live another life."
-William Golding
This speech was delivered December 7, 1983.
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girijad83, April 02, 2006
Reviewer: girijad83
from India
This podcast is the speech given by William Golding on receiving his Nobel Prize. William Golding is a fiction writer. He starts off by saying how the press and others will have to endure unrelieved gloom for half an hour, but that he deserves to speak for this time as he is the older of the Nobel laureates.
He talks about how he was labeled a pessimist, and makes fun by saying how could a pessimist be so frivolous as to juggle, the context of which I will keep a secret from you. The podcast is very entertaining for all, and the speech draws laughter a couple of times from the audience throughout the podcast.
The narration is excellent. The sound has a slight hiss to it, although it is high in clarity.
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