Faulkner, en obras anteriores, ha jugado poderosamente con el tiempo, deliberadamente ha barajado el orden cronológico, deliberadamente multiplico los laberintos y los equívocos. Tanto lo hizo que no faltó quien asegurara que derivaba toda su virtud de esas involuciones. Esta novela -directa, irresistible, straightforward- viene a desbaratar esa sospecha. Faulkner no trata de explicar a sus personajes. Nos muestra lo que sienten, lo que obran. Los hechos son extraordinarios, pero su narración es tan vívida que no podemos concebirlos de otra manera. "Lo verdadero puede no parecer verosímil" ha dicho Boileau. Faulkner prodiga las inverosimilitudes para parecer verdadero -y lo consigue. Mejor dicho: el mundo que imagina es tan real, que también abarca lo inverosímil.

Great collection of short stories that are exciting and fun to read. Bayard grows up as the stories proceed, and so the stories become slightly more critical of the South, but it is mostly the difference between what the characters do and how the reader reacts that reveals the critique. Also, this novel features Drusilla Hawk, one of my new favorite women of modernist lit. ( )

Great collection of short stories that are exciting and fun to read. Bayard grows up as the stories proceed, and so the stories become slightly more critical of the South, but it is mostly the difference between what the characters do and how the reader reacts that reveals the critique. Also, this novel features Drusilla Hawk, one of my new favorite women of modernist lit. ( )

Great collection of short stories that are exciting and fun to read. Bayard grows up as the stories proceed, and so the stories become slightly more critical of the South, but it is mostly the difference between what the characters do and how the reader reacts that reveals the critique. Also, this novel features Drusilla Hawk, one of my new favorite women of modernist lit. ( )

Great collection of short stories that are exciting and fun to read. Bayard grows up as the stories proceed, and so the stories become slightly more critical of the South, but it is mostly the difference between what the characters do and how the reader reacts that reveals the critique. Also, this novel features Drusilla Hawk, one of my new favorite women of modernist lit. ( )