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- "The Wild Palms" is a novel by William Faulkner, published in 1939, featuring two parallel stories that never intersect.
- The first story revolves around a prisoner and his struggle against nature's force, symbolized by the Mississippi flood, highlighting themes of destiny and freedom.
- The second story is set in New Orleans and explores a doomed love affair marked by desperation, guilt, and the inability of the characters to escape their circumstances.
- Faulkner's prose is noted for its complexity, offering no respite to the reader's imagination and demanding engagement with both narratives.
- The novel's dual stories, though irreconcilable, coexist on the same pages, creating a unique harmony essential for grasping the work's profound meaning.
"The wild palms" is a novel that was written by the American author William Faulkner, which was published in 1939.
This novel is composed of two stories, which run parallel without ever touching each other:
- The flood of the Mississippi, a prisoner destined for destiny and only the will of a man who knows nothing but prison. The story of a struggle against the force of nature is the river or the spirit of freedom, the true and probable story of a man who is in prison for naivete and then escaped by the same guilt.
- New Orleans years later, the desperate flight to the conclusion of an equally desperate love touched only occasionally by happiness.
These are the two stories that Faulkner recounts with his broad periods and a prose that does not allow respite to the imagination. Two completely irreconcilable stories that survive on the same pages with a harmony as imperceptible as it is indissoluble so that one can not choose one or the other, but the need of both is felt to understand the profound meaning of a work that stealthily enters the heart and there it settles like a rock.
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