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In this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner—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 wiht 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.
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The Wild Palms, William Faulkner
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- Année de publication
- 1964
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- Titre
- The Wild Palms
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- William Faulkner
- Éditeur
- Vintage
- Publié
- 1964
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 039470262X
- ISBN13
- 9780394702629
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Thématique juridique, Amour, Classiques, Littérature américaine, 20e siècle, Roman social, Suicide, Prix Nobel, Tragédie, Justice, Droit pénal, Années 1930, Mississippi, Inondations
- Première publication
- 1939
- Titre original
- The Wild Palms
- Évaluation
- 3,9 sur 5
- Description
- In this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner—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 wiht 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.