A Fable

Resumen del libro

This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner oeuvre. Faulkner himself fought in the war, and his descriptions of it ""rise to Magnificence"," according to The New York Times, and include, in Malcolm Cowley's words, ""some of the most powerful scenes he ever conceived"."

Biografía del autor

William Faulkner (1897-1962), Premio Nobel de 1949, uno de los maestros indiscutibles de la literatura norteamericana, residió toda su vida en Oxford, Mississippi, su tierra natal, que le sirvió de modelo del condado de Yoknapatawpha. En el escenario mítico de esta región transcurren la mayor parte de sus obras, entre las que figuran El ruido y la furia, Las palmeras salvajes, ¡Absalón, Absalón!, Santuario y Sartoris. En esta colección se han publicado El oso, una magistral novela corta, y Relatos.