Avec la collaboration de Ch.-P. Vorce. Nouvelle édition en 2000

Absalon, Absalon !

Elmer

Stories of New Orleans

Treize Histoires

One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues--invoving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail.

Les Larrons

Coucher de soleil

«Je lui avais dit de ne pas amener ce cheval, par respect pour sa défunte mère, parce que ça n'a pas bonne façon de le voir caracoler ainsi sur ce sacré cheval de cirque, alors qu'elle voulait que nous soyons tous avec elle dans la charrette, tous ceux de sa chair et de son sang ; mais, nous n'avions pas plus tôt dépassé le chemin de Tull que Darl s'est mis à rire. Assis sur la banquette avec Cash, avec sa mère couchée sous ses pieds, dans son cercueil, il a eu l'effronterie de rire !»

Tandis que j'agonise ; as I lay dying

One of the few of William Faulkner’s works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon, first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois.  An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern ménage a trois of flyers on the brainstorming circuit. These characters, Faulkner said, “were a fantastic and bizarre phenomenon on the face of the contemporary scene. . . . That is, there was really no place for them in the culture, in the economy, yet they were there, at that time, and everyone knew that they wouldn’t last very long, which they didn’t. . . . That they were outside the range of God, not only of respectability, of love, but of God too.” In Pylon Faulkner set out to test their rootless modernity to see if there is any place in it for the old values of the human heart that are the central concerns of his best fiction.

Pylone

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions.

Absalon, Absalon !

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