by William Faulkner · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481302103
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«El villorrio» is the first novel in William Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, published by Biblioteca El Mundo. Millenium, in hardcover (317 pages).
The novel opens with the arrival of the Snopes, a family of humble origins and ambiguous past, in a small village in the southern United States. Through loans, deals, and relentless cunning, the Snopes take over the town to the astonishment and helplessness of their neighbors, leading it toward ruin and humiliation.
The Snopes Trilogy is completed with «La ciudad» and «La mansión». Spanish-language edition from 1999, with a prologue by Mariano Antolín Rato.
For readers of classics who want to start exploring Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy.
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.
