The Wild Palms

Resumen del libro

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.

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.