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Cargando... A Rose for Emily {Tale Blazers}por William Faulkner
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Chrissylou62 | Apr 11, 2024 |   Faulkner has a way of making you feel the dusty rooms, see the sunlight rays breaking through the tattered curtains, smell the decay and must and mold. The house itself is like a funeral home or perhaps a tomb. The reality of death, and a death-like state for the living, is everywhere. Emily has not lived, she has wasted away, with her arms around a dream that has itself long since died. What a metaphor for the South Faulkner lived in...a world with one foot still in the past, which it has glamorized, and one foot in the unsettling reality that has followed. In regard to the glamorization of the past, one cannot help seeing the parallels there. This man Emily has preserved and whose bones she has slept with for all these years, never loved her or intended to marry her. He was just the embodiment of a dream that was ugly and sour beneath its surface. After he was gone, she obviously nurtured the idea of him and refashioned him to meet her need to validate her own existence. In the end she is just a spectacle for the town. Nothing of her feelings or the truth of her character was ever understood by anyone of them. And yet, she was accepted as being one of them and a part of their own greater history while she lived. A haunting and sad tale, told with so little drama that it makes the ending all the more shocking. Worthy, as Faulkner always is, of a revisit from time to time. (  ) mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 | FleetSparrow | Jul 10, 2021 | I say gem in the sense of exceptional writing, depicting some of humanity's subjective failings, in this case re southern culture. No doubt many are familiar with this short story by Faulkner, especially writers if they've labored at improving their proficiency. I would comment that the blurb here on goodreads is lacking. The small book I have contains a blurb more befitting the story: As the sole survivor of a southern family, Emily Grierson maintains an aloof dignity from her neighbors, refusing even to pay taxes. Later, when she is jilted by a lover and becomes a recluse, the people of Jefferson are forgiving and protective of her. But when Emily dies, the townspeople learn the horrifying truth about the town's last belle. (  ) LGCullens | Jun 1, 2021 | never exactly married but she got her man. ( ) Eggpants | Jun 25, 2020 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"As the sole survivor of a southern family, Emily Grierson maintains an aloof dignity from her neighbors, refusing even to pay taxes. Later, when she is jilted by a lover and becomes a recluse, the people of Jefferson are forgiving and protective of her. But when Emily dies, the townspeople learn the horrifying truth about the town's last belle"--T.p. verso. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Be ready for a surprise ending! (