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About This Novel

110th anniversary commemorative edition of William Golding, Nobel Prize winner for literature and author of the novel "Lord of the Flies". A monster spire that can never be completed, an obsessive and confusing sacred dream, a masterpiece of philosophical fiction where absurdity and reality intersect. "The Church Spire" is Golding's important masterpiece, which deeply explores the intricate mixture of human faith and despair, ideals and reality. The novel tells the story of Patriarch Jocelyn of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary who truly felt the call of the Lord, asking him to build a church steeple as high as four hundred feet for the glory of the Lord. He naively believed that as long as he was "pious" and had a firm "will", God would definitely help him build a spire that reached heaven on the ground. This grand construction without a foundation ended in failure. In "Church Spire", Golding places the hope of mankind in seeking an ideal state, and also reveals the real living conditions in which ideals are eventually shattered; noble aspirations and ugly reality, the struggle for good and sinful desires are intertwined; through the intertwined images of absurdity and reality, and the artistic technique of using both symbol and metaphor, the author profoundly reveals the truth of human nature and society.

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