The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's …
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 …
Mentre morivo è un romanzo dello scrittore statunitense William Faulkner, pubblicato a New York nel 1930 dall'editore Cape & Smith. Nel libro viene narrata una storia semplicissima sul piano della mera fabula ma estremamente complessa su quello dello stile e della tecnica narrativa. Ed è proprio la forma peculiare …
Requiem per una monaca è un romanzo scritto da William Faulkner pubblicato nel 1951, finalista al National Book Award. È stato adattato per il teatro da Albert Camus nel 1956.
This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South.Like its predecessor The Hamlet and its successor The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the other two. The story …
The Mansion is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1959. It is the last in a trilogy of books about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi, following The Hamlet and The Town. It charts the downfall of Flem Snopes at the hands of his relative Mink Snopes, in part aided by Flem's deaf …