"Like a cold sweat, a day-mare or going under gas . . . Prose more tightly packed, more jaggedly concrete, I can"t imagine: and the shock ending, which throws a new and doubly alarming retrospective light on the whole book, is technical wizardry of the first order".
Kenneth Tynan in the Observe.
"Golding"s imagination works brilliantly just within the limits of fantastic nightmare . . . Martin"s struggles in the water, with which the story opens, his slow climb up the rock to a sort of plateau on the top, the confused meditations in which his rational mind strives to reduce the norror of his position to tolerable terms: of all this Golding writes with t. remarkably sustained imaginative intensity!" Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Pincher Martin (William Golding)