In this feverishly beautiful novel--originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem--William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his own chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit. The Wild Palms is grandly inventive, heart-stopping in its prose, and suffused on every page with the physical presence of the country that Faulkner made his own.
General | |
Anul | 1995 |
Autor | William Faulkner |
Categoria | Literary |
Cod de bare | 9780679741930 |
Colectie | Vintage International |
Editie | Paperback |
Editura | Vintage |
Dimensiuni | 205 x 133 x 17 |
ISBN | 0679741933 |
Limba | Engleza |
Pagini | 304 |
Format | Brosata |
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William Faulkner s-a născut în 1897 în Mississippi, SUA și a murit în 1962. Era un autor, poet și scenarist american renumit pentru scrierile sale care reflectă lumea rurală a sudului american. El a lucrat la Hollywood pentru o perioadă de cincisprezece ani, scriind scenarii pentru mai multe studiouri cinematografice, inclusiv MGM.
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