Collected Stories

This collection of short stories is the best opportunity to approach Faulkner's universe. Pearls of special rarity that evoke everything from the mythical territory of Yoknapatawpha to New York City.

In August 1950, two months before receiving the Nobel Prize, William Faulkner published this collection of short stories, which was awarded the National Book Award a year later. A volume that he himself arranged and that reflects the search for a harmony in which the pieces do not clash and are modulated as an entity of their own. An approach to the cruelty, brutality and tenderness of the human being, another example of William Faulkner's genius and a perfect gateway to the universe of this undisputed master of modern American literature.

Critics have said:
«Faulkner delved into the shadows with an emotion and talent that are difficult to compare [...]. Anyone who is curious about the 20th century novel in any language has an obligation to read William Faulkner.»
Javier Marías

«Faulkner likes to expose the novel through the characters. The method is not absolutely original, but Faulkner instills in it an intensity that is almost intolerable.»<
Jorge Luis Borges

«The link between Cervantes and Faulkner is that both add something to the world, they enlighten our spirit, by converting hidden worlds into liberated worlds: Faulkner through the tragic awareness of pain and Cervantes through comedy and the idea that man will prevail.»
Carlos Fuentes

«Reading and re-reading Faulkner makes one suspect that his gaze was different from ours, from that of ordinary men, from that of ordinary writers. Focused on landscapes, people, circumstances, he saw something more than what we perceived [...]. He is, literarily, one of the greatest artists of the century.»
Juan Carlos Onetti

«Faulkner is a god.»
Jean-Paul Sartre

«The most radical innovator in the annals of American fiction, a writer whose classes the European and Hispanic American avant-garde should attend.»
J. M. Coetzee

«When a novelist manages to transmit to the reader that peremptory, unappealable sensation that what he is telling could only happen that way - be told that way -, he has triumphed in every line.»
Mario Vargas Llosa

«No one is ever the same after Faulkner.»
Rodrigo Fresán, ABC

«When I read William Faulkner, I suddenly realized that prose could have the freedom and possible indiscipline of poetry.»
Michael Ondaatje

«Faulkner's stories are not adorned with humor, but rather humor emanates from them, from their blood and bones as much as from their passion and lyricism.»
Eudora Welty