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.
Sobre o autor(a)
Faulkner, William
WILLIAM FAULKNER nasceu em 1897, em New Albany, Mississippi. Publicou seu primeiro romance, Soldier’s Pay, em 1926, depois de uma breve temporada em Paris. Com o lançamento de O som e a fúria, em 1929, iniciou a fase mais consagradora de sua carreira, que culminou com o grande sucesso de Palmeiras selvagens, de 1939. Durante as décadas de 1930 e 1940, escreveu roteiros para Hollywood. Em 1949 recebeu o prêmio Nobel de literatura. Morreu em 1962, vítima de um enfarte, aos 64 anos. |