As you know, Literature is a friend who does not feed, but only gives water. What, then, is Literary Criticism? Novelist Wilfrid Barclay, experiencing both a “crisis of creativity” and a “midlife crisis,” is forced to endure around him the literary “Sancho Panza” - a meticulous professor - a “Barkleyist”... Thus begins a poisonous satire on writing and publishing morals of the second half of the 20th century. — “Paper People” by William Golding, the book is original, elegant and, oddly enough, FUN.