Книга The Wild palms 600012058659

Новое букинистическое издание. In this feverishly beautiful novel, originally titled "If I Forget You, Jerusalem," William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each completely absorbing itself, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a woman set off on a headlong flight into the desert of illicit passions, fleeing from their husband and the temptations of respectability. Ten years earlier, in Mississippi, a convict went through a flooded river, risking his own chance of freedom to save a pregnant woman. From these individual stories, Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elementary danger is compared with fatal injuries of the spirit. "Wild Palms" is highly inventive, heartbreaking in its prose and filled on every page with the physical presence of the country that Faulkner made his own. В этом лихорадочно красивом романе, первоначально названном «
Если я забуду тебя, Иерусалим», Уильям Фолкнер переплетает два