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Det nya folket (1955)

av William Golding

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Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit.… (mer)
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    Den svarta tigern av Björn Kurtén (themulhern)
    themulhern: Neandertals are displaced by Cro-Magnons.
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I am in awe of this book, Golding's craft, and his work in general (I have also read "Lord of the Flies" and "Darkness Visible"). The writing itself, whatever one thinks of the plot, is transcendent. I am impressed by what must have been prodigious research on Golding’s part to gain insight in the world of the Neanderthals, about whose specific reality modern man can only speculate. Whatever the Neanderthals lacked in intellectual capability, they more than made up for in their ability to use their senses, especially that of smell. As well as their possible telekinetic activity, which would have been unencumbered by more advanced intellectual processes. Golding's Neanderthals have an intuitive grasp of their world that is lacking in the modern human; on the other hand, the Neanderthals also live more wholly at the mercy of "Oa" (Mother Earth). The innocence of the Neanderthals is endearing, the "new people" Homo sapiens are dangerous and menacing. I felt compassion for the Neanderthals, and contempt for "the new people". The emotion that binds both species together is fear; -IE- Homo sapiens refer to the Neanderthals as "devils"; Fa tells Lok that “the new people are frightened of the air”.

The prose within "The Inheritors" is highly poetic; Golding paints an intricate portrait of a primeval landscape, such as our planet will probably never experience again; this description in itself adds to the atmosphere of suspense the author creates in this novel. It is not just that landscape in itself that is impressionable, but also how it is perceived by the Neanderthals and their "mind-dream-pictures"; -IE- the heightened colors seen by Lok during his hangover from the honey-drink. Golding shrouds his worlds in mystery to create a background of heightened effect, which becomes an integral part of the story; Richard Wagner used a similar technique by employing the orchestra as an additional "voice" in “Der Ring des Nibelungen”. One of the major themes of this book focuses on the evolution of innocence into corruption; a problem that unfortunately still exists in humans today. Another theme is that of the Machiavellian nature of mankind as a whole, specifically in how that behaviour was starting to evolve in Golding's portrait of Homo sapiens. I actually think this work is more engaging than the more commercially accessible LOTF (and certainly more so than the experimental-yet-inconsistent "Darkness Visible”). Golding is a recent discovery of mine, and I am looking forward to reading more of his work.
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  stephencbird | Sep 19, 2023 |
The attempt to capture the development of language and human cognition was admirable, but it may be a failed experiment. Action was frequently difficult to follow as a result. Still interesting. ( )
  3Oranges | Jun 24, 2023 |
I was excited to read another William Golding, and had been told about this novel by some university professor or other. I was, sad to say, rather disappointed by it.

(Might as well be honest from the start.)

The book is the story of when primitive man and modern man encountered each other for the first time in prehistory, marking the end of one civilization and the beginning of a new one. It’s quite an interesting concept, especially when you see how well Golding tries to emulate the culture of primitive man, who is essentially the collective main character of the story. The primitive men live a culture of togetherness and unity, which is really emulated well in the story telling, and you can really feel the loss as the characters start to disappear and succumb to modern man one by one. There are some really interesting and good points in the story, but for the most part, it is quite forgettable.

The general story is just rather…lackluster. I don’t remember much of the plot or much of the characters’ names, which is saying something. It’s good, but it’s one of those books that just doesn’t leave a mark at all.

Final rating: 2/5. ( )
  viiemzee | Feb 20, 2023 |
Si algún periodo del devenir humano requiere un esfuerzo extra de imaginación para narrarlo es, sin lugar a dudas, la prehistoria. Existen pocos datos, fragmentarios, algunos contradictorios y los científicos apenas si llegan a consensuar algunas hipotéticas afirmaciones. Golding muestra en esta novela conocer bien la visión que los paleoantropólogos tenían de la evolución humana. Pasadas varias décadas, “Los herederos” se publicó en 1955, muchos de los paradigmas entonces vigentes se han desmoronado y han sido sustituidos sucesivamente por otros nuevos. No sólo en lo que a sapiens se refiere sino, especialmente, en la visión que se tiene hoy en día de neandertal: sus habilidades técnicas, su posible universo simbólico, su aspecto físico, su intercambio de ADN con otras especies… Incluso actualmente se baraja la posibilidad del denisovano como una tercera especie humana contemporánea a las otras dos. No obstante el autor no menciona en ningún momento a que grupos humanos se refiere cuando los describe.
Todo esto no resta mérito a la obra de Golding. Partiendo de los conocimientos científicos de la época pergeña una historia ficticia pero creíble con un estilo valiente y con un vocabulario críptico a fuerza de sencillo lo que permite al lector, no sin esfuerzo, intentar ver el mundo a través de los ojos de un humano prehistórico.
Más allá del conflicto entre especies cercanas genéticamente que ocupan el mismo hábitat, Golding se vale de la trama como armazón para desarrollar una dimensión ética: la crueldad, el rechazo del diferente, la lucha por sobrevivir,… Al mismo tiempo propone un posible universo simbólico en el hombre prehistórico: creencias, ritos, valores,… Así como el devenir cotidiano de su existencia: sus anhelos más inmediatos que un filósofo epicúreo consideraría deseos naturales y necesarios, sus aspiraciones más superfluas,… Una novela para la reflexión que además, por su ritmo, entretiene y que exige del lector una atención especial. ¿Se puede pedir más? ( )
  GilgameshUruk | Jul 17, 2022 |
En primavera, la tribu de Lok regresa a los pastos donde, desde tiempos inmemoriales, su gente pasa las épocas de bonanza. Esta vez, sin embargo, sonidos y olores inexplicables los sorprenden y atemorizan: sus tierras han sido ocupadas por unos extraños seres que, si bien guardan cierto parecido con ellos, muestran fascinantes habilidades y sofisticación. Se trata de la tribu de Tuami, de una nueva raza: el homo sapiens, cuya crueldad y corrupción los convertirá en los herederos de unos humanoides condenados a la extinción. En esta novela, por la que él mismo sentía una especial predilección, el premio Nobel Golding traslada el tema de El señor de las moscas, la crueldad consustancial al hombre, a la prehistoria. Con inigualable virtuosismo, que otorga una dimensión tangible a las descripciones, construye una obra deslumbrante y perturbadora que desvela la barbarie inherente a la llamada «civilización», donde el progreso es en realidad una larga caída.
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  MigueLoza | Dec 30, 2021 |
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We know very little of the appearance of the Neaderthal man, but this . . . seems to suggest an extreme hairiness, an ugliness, or a repulsive strangeness in his appearance over and above his low forehead, his beetle brows, his ape neck, and his inferior stature . . . Says Sir Harry Johnston, in a survey of the rise of modern man in his Views and Reviews: 'The dim racial remembrance of such gorilla-like monsters, with cunning brains, shambling gait, hairy bodies, stong teeth, and possibly canabalistic tendencies, may be the germ of the ogre in folklore . .'

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