by William Faulkner · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429726060
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«Absalom, Absalom!» is the novel by American writer William Faulkner, published by Edicions 62 in hardcover (311 pages, in Catalan).
The novel follows Thomas Sutpen's determination to create a dynasty in the American South and the consequences of that ambition. Through several narrators, including Quentin Compson, Sutpen's story in Yoknapatawpha County is reconstructed: family, race, class, and the legacy of the past.
Catalan edition translated by Marta Pera Cucurell (1987). The novel was originally published in 1936. It belongs to the collection Les millors obres de la literatura universal (segle xx).
Recommended for readers of American literature classics and the Southern Gothic.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
