The work of William Golding (1911-1993) belongs to the most striking phenomena in British literature of the second half of the 20th century. After the release of the writer’s first novel, Lord of the Flies, in 1954, which was a huge success, each of his new books became an event in literary life. In 1983, the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize “for novels that […] help to understand the human condition in the modern world.” “The Scorpion God” is a book of stories-parables, the action of which takes place in the distant past, but the author here raises the most pressing questions for the 20th century, leaving no one indifferent and forcing us to think again and again about the “damned” questions of existence.