Questa tragedia greca postbellica è l'introduzione perfetta all'elaborata sintassi descrittiva di Faulkner. Quentin Compson e Shreve, il suo compagno di stanza ad Harvard, sono ossessionati dalla tragica ascesa e caduta di Thomas Sutpen. Da povero ragazzo bianco, Sutpen fu respinto dalla villa di un proprietario di piantagioni da un maggiordomo nero. Da quel momento in poi, fu determinato a farsi strada nei ranghi più alti della società del Sud. La sua volontà implacabile assicura che le sue ambizioni si realizzino presto; terra, matrimonio, figli, la sua stessa truppa per combattere nella guerra civile. Ma Sutpen torna dal conflitto per trovare la sua tenuta in rovina e la sua famiglia al collasso. I segreti del suo passato minacciano di rovinare la vita dei suoi figli e distruggere tutto ciò per cui ha lavorato.
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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.
This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner’s elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a black butler.
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