by William Faulkner · RBH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447306350
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«El Villorrio» is a novel by William Faulkner, published by RBH in paperback (440 pages, in Spanish).
«El Villorrio» is the first part of the «Trilogía de los Snopes» and narrates the arrival of the Snopes clan in the village of Jefferson, weighed down by rumours of violent vendettas. The Snopes gradually take over the town with ambition, while the neighbours watch failure and humiliation spread through their community.
Original title: «The Hamlet» (1940); the «Trilogía de los Snopes» is completed with «La ciudad» and «La mansión».
For readers of classic American fiction and the Southern Gothic, with a rural saga about ambition and power.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
