¡Absalón, Absalón!

William Faulkner, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of American literature of the last century. His work travels the most complex paths with technical mastery and an overwhelming narrative talent, capable of generating a universe around the small and apocryphal Yoknapatawpha county, a transcript of his native Mississippi, through the combination of a deep development of the characters and of an innovative repertoire of expressive resources that reaches its peak in "Absalom, Absalom!"Today no one doubts that "Absalom, Absalom!" it is a masterpiece and a key novel in world literature. An ambiguous text in which the reader, following the voices of different characters, enters the diffuse time of memory, and whose interwoven story serves to expose the elusive and elusive nature of truth, always in the shadow of a slavery to which Faulkner himself referred to as the "curse" of the Southern United States.