Mientras agonizo

william faulkner mariano antolín rato

Addie Bundren, antigua maestra de escuela, yace agonizante mientras sus hijos y su marido aguardan el momento de su muerte y se disponen a cumplir su voluntad de ser enterrada en el cementerio de Jefferson, a más de sesenta kilómetros de distancia, junto a sus antepasados. La narración de las peripecias que corren los pobres e ignorantes miembros de la familia Bundren a lo largo del extraño y accidentado traslado del cadáver en carromato de mulas, da pie a William Faulkner (1897-1962) para levantar en las páginas de MIENTRAS AGONIZO (1930) una de sus novelas más ricas. Sirviéndose del monólogo interior de los personajes, crea una novela poliédrica que, cual una piedra tallada, va reflejando, según la faceta a través de la cual apreciamos su unidad, los infinitos claroscuros de la naturaleza humana.

Genres classicsfictionliteraturenovelsamericanschoolsouthern gothicliterary fiction20th centurysouthern

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1930

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mississippi, the united states of america, yoknapatawpha county mississippi,

This edition

Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Published: January 24, 2005 by Alianza Editorial
ISBN: 9788420656571
ASIN: 8420656577
Language: Spanish; Castilian

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About the author

william faulkner

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. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.
Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury. The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade, he wrote Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a screenwriter, contributing to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, adapted from Raymond Chandler's novel. The former film, adapted from Ernest Hemingway's novel, is the only film with contributions by two Nobel laureates.
Faulkner's reputation grew following publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner, and he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel." He is the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Faulkner died from a heart attack on July 6, 1962, following a fall from his horse the month before. Ralph Ellison called him "the greatest artist the South has produced".