by William Faulkner · Barcelona : Alianza : Club Internacional del Libro, 1984 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420692111
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«Gambito de caballo» is William Faulkner's collection of detective stories, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (217 pages, in Spanish).
In these six tales with a detective atmosphere, Gavin Stevens, district attorney of Yoknapatawpha, acts as the connecting thread of plots that mix crimes and moral dilemmas. Faulkner sets the stories in northern Mississippi and shows how human contradictions and urges surface in that rural landscape.
Translation by Lucrecia Moreno de Sáenz. Originally published as «Knight's Gambit» in 1949. Volume 11 of Biblioteca Fundamental de Nuestro Tiempo, co-published with Club Internacional del Libro.
A title for readers of American classics and short fiction with detective overtones.
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.
