Light in August - Softcover

Faulkner, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099283158 ISBN 13: 9780099283157

Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob., Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in Faulkner's complex and tragic world.

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Críticas:

"Burns throughout with a fierce indignation against cruelty, stupidity and prejudice - a great book" (Spectator)

"Faulkner has inexhaustible invention, powerful imagination, and he writes, generally, like an angel" (Arnold Bennett)

"By universal consent of critics and common readers, Faulkner is now recognised as the strongest American novelist of the century, clearly surpassing (Ernest) Hemingway and (Scott) Fitzgerald, and standing as an equal in the sequence that includes Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain and Henry James" (Harold Bloom)

"Magisterial" (Independent)

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'Magisterial' Independent

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in Faulkner's complex and tragic world.

See also: The Sound and the Fury

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• Verlag: Vintage Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099283158
• ISBN 13: 9780099283157
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384