by William Faulkner · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447310944
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«¡Absalón, Absalón!» is the novel by William Faulkner, published by RBA in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Quentin Compson, descendant of a ruined Southern family, reconstructs with his Harvard roommate the story of Thomas Sutpen, a man determined to create a great plantation and found a dynasty. The narrative, sustained by several voices, portrays the pride, racism, incest, and violence of a decadent Southern society, in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County.
Work originally published in 1936 as «Absalom, Absalom!»; this RBA edition is from 1996.
For readers of classic fiction and twentieth-century American narrative.
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.
