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Barcelona: Proa, DL 1985, 309 p., [2] p., 20,5 cm (A Tot Vent; 226)
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In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.
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LibraryThing member markfrye
Two seemingly unrelated novellas in one book, one about a doctor-turned-bohemian and his adulterous affair with a woman who runs away with him, only to die from a botched abortion, the other about a convict's adventure as he saves a pregnant woman during a horrific flood in Mississippi (he gets ten
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additional years added to his sentence for his trouble). Well-written, enjoyable, but not a major work. I liked it a great deal. Show Less
LibraryThing member BeaverMeyer
The Old Man is very well written, and it is a fantastic story. The Wild Palms, I didn't enjoy so much. Faulkner clearly didn't intend it, but if you ever reread this novel, read each story seperately. It's more enjoyable that way.
LibraryThing member pnorman4345
A couple meet, she is married with children , he is a poor naive medical student. They fall in love and run away.
She is an artist. He wants to keep their love pure, above middle class conventions such as security. This absolute idea leads to stupid behavior and eventually he performs an abortion
She is an artist. He wants to keep their love pure, above middle class conventions such as security. This absolute idea leads to stupid behavior and eventually he performs an abortion
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on her which kills her. This is largely a novel of an idea, hardly a novel, more an argument of ideas. The characters are not developed. The pot is simple and obvious. There is an effort to capture ' consciousness' of a person when a crisis is occurring. Show Less
LibraryThing member JuliaBoechat
Um dos livros mais conhecidos de Faulkner, em parte pela frase "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain." Formado por duas novelas entrelaçadas.
LibraryThing member Lucy_Skywalker
Another book I read when I was too young, and now I can remember not much more than that I liked it.
LibraryThing member isisingonthecake
My mother asked me what I thought of it, and mentioned that she thought it sounded kind of "steamy" from the GoodReads summary, so this started out as a comment on her comment and then turned into a general commentary/review so I thought it would make more sense to just make my official comment
I thought it was excellent. there's not really a lot of explicit sex in it, so i wouldn't call it steamy so much as "shocking" in the context of the times. there's a mention of using a douche, there's two abortions (not graphic, nothing like Cider House Rules, thank God), but the purpose of the sex is not for its own sake but to contribute to the realism of the book. the whole point is that there are two stories interpolated with each other, and they have absolutely NOTHING to do with each other. there's no crossover of characters, or even types of characters, time, place, etc. there are, however, various themes which are common to both. The name of one story is Wild Palms, and the other is Old Man. I remember my professor telling us what the deal was with the title being "If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem", but I don't remember what it was.… In any case, the Wild Palms story is where the sex takes place, and the realism of the relationship portrayed there is infinitely enhanced by the unequivocal, unapologetic, *unromantic* presence of their sexual acts.
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lol. I thought it was excellent. there's not really a lot of explicit sex in it, so i wouldn't call it steamy so much as "shocking" in the context of the times. there's a mention of using a douche, there's two abortions (not graphic, nothing like Cider House Rules, thank God), but the purpose of the sex is not for its own sake but to contribute to the realism of the book. the whole point is that there are two stories interpolated with each other, and they have absolutely NOTHING to do with each other. there's no crossover of characters, or even types of characters, time, place, etc. there are, however, various themes which are common to both. The name of one story is Wild Palms, and the other is Old Man. I remember my professor telling us what the deal was with the title being "If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem", but I don't remember what it was.… In any case, the Wild Palms story is where the sex takes place, and the realism of the relationship portrayed there is infinitely enhanced by the unequivocal, unapologetic, *unromantic* presence of their sexual acts.
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LibraryThing member vwriter
The Wild Palms was a gritty---evocative read---filled with guts and flesh doused in a hue of yellow.
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English
Original publication date
1939
Physical description
309 p.; 21 cm
ISBN
8475880398 / 9788475880396