The Spire: With an introduction by John Mullan

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Ustayı delirtiyor. Usta ne kadar bırakıp gitmek istese de manyak rahip izin vermiyor. Adamın başka işler bulup gitmesini engelliyor. Kimse ustaya iş vermiyor ve dolayısıyla usta da bırakıp gidemiyor. Gizemli bir teyzesi var rahibin, ondan da para geliyor. Böylece kule inşaatı aylarca devam ediyor. Zavallı ustacık çaresizce bilimsel açıklamalar yapıyor. (Mukavemet analizi, zemin etüdü falan işte...) Ama yok. Manyak rahip o dili konuşmuyor ki. O tanrıdan alıyor emirleri. Senin fizik kurallarını koyan adamla konuşuyor rahip. Sen kimsin fakir usta! Don Crompton, in A View from the Spire: William Golding's Later Novels, analyses the novel and relates it to its pagan and mythical elements. More recently, Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor cover all of William Golding's novels in William Golding: A Critical Study of the Novels. If there was a Jocelin, and his spire fell, it becomes something else. All that incredible effort was for something – but left nothing, Or in fact, less than nothing, given the financial, physical and mental toll it took on everyone connected to its construction.

Golding taught for years (1945-61) at Bishop Wordsworth’s School, in the shadow of Salisbury Cathedral, and the tale of the building of the spire, strange and dream-like though it is in the telling, has historical roots. I was surprised to learn that some of the most dramatic and alarming elements in the fictional cathedral’s physical geography, such as the shallowness and marshiness of its foundations—brilliantly exploited by Golding at a literal and metaphorical level—are factually true of Salisbury Cathedral. The lunatic venture of piling up the second-highest spire in Europe on such a precarious base was one that Salisbury’s anonymous masons did actually undertake, in the early fourteenth century. The swaying, creaking, leaning pillar-crushing monstrosity that Golding portrays as the result of his fictional Dean Jocelin’s madness is the serenely beautiful landmark we know from Constable’s paintings. Christopher Wren, brought in for restoration in the 1680s, found the spire leaning almost 30 inches from the vertical and slowly crushing the ancient pillars on which it stood. The Spire (1995)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 August 2023 . Retrieved 25 September 2020. The Spire is distinctly allegorical and there are many references to how the grand medieval cathedral resembles a human body both in structure & function. Workers curse & chant bawdy songs, oblivious to the building's continuing function as a place of worshipI read this book years ago with the Guardian Reading Group and had a chance to ask Golding’s daughter a question at the end of the month. Many participants did not like the book because the protagonist is not likeable, but I thought it was a very sad and tragic story in the end. Jocelin acquired his job through a family connection and was otherwise completely ill-equipped for the role. He had neither the intelligence or the faith—the spire he sees as his purpose. (He came to mind often during the Trump Presidency.) Because the narrative is a very narrow 3rd person, every event and conversation is filtered through the Dean’s increasingly distorted, self-centred mind. The reader has to read past that to try to understand what is happening.(“The Inheritors” uses a similar technique.) Canadian-British director Roger Spottiswoode optioned The Spire in the mid-1990s, originally intending to adapt it for screen [20] [21] [22] and cited as a project in development. [23] In November 2012, a play adaptation by Spottiswoode was premiered at the Salisbury Playhouse, directed by Gareth Minchin. [24] [25] [26] This is a very demanding novel due to its narration style (it is written in the style of stream of conscience, but solely from Jocelyn's perspective) as well as its heavy symbolism and imagery. However, it is immensely rewarding due to the immersive prose. The apocalyptic, maddening and at times horrific imagery is conveyed perfectly through Golding's excellent narration skills, the dialogue between Jocelyn and his contenders riveting and the symbolism comes across crystal clear. Yahu zemin müsait değil" dese de usta, "Sen merak etme ben biliyorum, tanrı böyle buyurdu, o kule yapılacak" Services, Tribune Media. "PRYCE SAYS PRESS MADE UP TIFF WITH DIRECTOR". Sun-Sentinel.com . Retrieved 25 September 2020.

A priest builds a spire on a cathedral according to a spiritual vision, believing it to be the calling of God and dependant upon his will and faith to bring it to completion, destroying his congregation, vocation and sanity in the process.Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.” Isaiah 6:2 Miller, Jeanne C. "ELUSIVE AND OBSCURE." The Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 40, no. 4, 1964, pp. 668–671. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26444912. Accessed 16 Apr. 2020. Day and night, acts of worship went on in the stink and half dark, where the candles illuminated nothing but close haloes of vapour; and the voices rose, in fear of age and death, in fear of weight and dimension, in fear of darkness and a universe without hope. (50) Father Adam is dubbed by Jocelin as " Father Anonymous", indicating Jocelin's feelings of superiority. Until the end of the novel, when Father Adam becomes Jocelin's caretaker, he is largely a minor character who is surprised by how Jocelin was never taught to pray, doing his best to help him to heaven. The whole project is in fact tainted. The workmen are not God-fearing men engaged in act of devotion but coarse and bawdy men who mercilessly ridicule Goody’s husband. There’s a suggestion that the Cathedral itself rests not on hallowed ground but oozing mud from which the forces of hell escape and taint the structure above.

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The Spire is really a story of overweening pride, megalomania, and the downfall that must follow. And, we wonder, just whose pride and downfall are we really talking about? My money is on Western civilization—at the time of its writing the world had recently completed a decade of Depression followed by a World War, the Vietnam was near on the horizon, and the cloud of Cold War hung over us all. Or … maybe its just about cathedral construction! It's beauty is that each of us will find something different.