Name: Wild Palms von William Faulkner
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Wild Palms Zusammenfassung

Wild Palms William Faulkner

'Between grief and nothing I will take grief'

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and 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 one 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.

Wild Palms Bewertungen

There is no writer living who can play upon a scene the rich and Rembrandtesque flame that Faulkner commands * Evening Standard *
His prose style is all his own, often sensuously alert, evocative, graceful * Daily Telegraph *
Lays to rest any doubts that Faulkner could write a powerful love story * Washington Post *
There is an extraordinary vigor and power in his writing, a feverish urge toward description in which words combine in a dense web of meaning * Chicago Tribune *

Über William Faulkner

Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler.
William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR003015317

ISBN 13

9780099282921

ISBN 10

0099282925

Titel

Wild Palms William Faulkner

Autor

William Faulkner

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Vintage Publishing

Datum

20001005

Anzahl der Seiten

304

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