If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem

William Faulkner

јун. 2013 г. · Harper Collins

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Comprised of two inter-woven stories, William Faulkner’s If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (also referred to as The Wild Palms) explores the nature of a relationship between a man and a woman. In The Wild Palms, the thoughtful and young Harry Wilbourne meets and falls in love with a married woman—the beautiful and passionate Charlotte Rittenmeyer. Though their relationship is under constant strain from Charlotte’s marriage, their lack of money, and the couple’s changing dynamic, the two remain fiercely loyal to one another during their brief time together. In The Old Man a convict tasked with rescue a pregnant woman who has become caught in a tree after the Mississippi River floods. As the convict rescues the woman, the pair are washed away downstream and must struggle back up-river together.

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William Faulkner (1897-1962) is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all American novelists and short-story writers. His other works include the novels The Sound and the Fury, The Reivers, and Sanctuary. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and in 1949 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.