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In this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner—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 wiht 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.
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The Wild Palms, William Faulkner
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1964
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- Titel
- The Wild Palms
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- William Faulkner
- Verlag
- Vintage
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1964
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 352
- ISBN10
- 039470262X
- ISBN13
- 9780394702629
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Rechtsthematik, Klassiker, Liebe, Amerikanische Literatur, 20. Jahrhundert, Literarische Fiktion, Nobelpreis, Selbstmord, Tragödie, Gerechtigkeit, Strafrecht, 30er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, Überschwemmungen, Mississippi
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1939
- Originaltitel
- The Wild Palms
- Bewertung
- 3,9 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- In this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner—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 wiht 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.