Mr. Faulkner and The Wild Palms

The Wild Palms

Hi all,

First of all, I have to say I'm going to read this book in Spanish, because unfortunately my poor knowlege in English is miles away to understand Faulkners' vocabulary. That doesn't mean I don't like it, I suppose is just the opposite. What I like about him is his particular style to describe every situation with all those rich details. Also, I think his understanding about love and the relationships is quite peculiar and fascinating. Here, my extract from the book -which I won't finish, for sure- where Faulkner finds just the perfect words and uses the correct comparison -in my opinion- to show what's love and what happens when falls apart, Charlotte say:

"Yes. It's love. They say love dies between two people. That's wrong. I doesn't die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you're not good enough, worthy enough. It doesn't die; you're the one that dies. It's like the ocean: if you're no good, if you begin to make a bad smell in it, it just spews you up somewhere to die. You die anyway, but I had rather drown in the ocean than be urped up onto a strip of dead beach and be dried away by the sun into a little foul smear with no name to it, just this was for an epitaph. (...)".

So, this is about The Wild Palms, the chapters I enjoied more. With regard to The Old man story, for me more difficult even than the other one, I dislike the unending paragraphs, with no pauses and points. High level, high level...

The other point I didn't enjoy is that particular way to alternate the chapters of two different stories...that made me crazy to follow them. But, for sure, Faulker is one of the biggest.

Well, we will talk about it tomorrow!!

Esther.