Les palmiers sauvages

William Faulkner

Publié par Editions Gallimard

364 pages

Résumé

In this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner—William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his own chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed wiht fatal injuries of the spirit. The Wild Palms is grandly inventive, heart-stopping in its prose, and suffused on every page with the physical presence of the country that Faulkner made his own.

Requiem pour une nonne

Une rose pour Emily ; soleil couchant ; septembre ardent ; a rose for Emily ; that evening sun ; dry september

Absalom, Absalom!

Treize Histoires

Croquis de La Nouvelle-Orléans ; mayday

Le Bruit et la Fureur

Docteur Martino ; musique noire ; dr. Martino ; black music

Oeuvres romanesques Tome 2

Critiques