A Rose for Emily / The Evening Sun / Dry September : Une Rose pour Emily / Soleil Couchant / Septembre Ardent

by William Faulkner

Dans Une rose pour Emily, Emily Grierson, recluse dans sa vaste demeure remplie d'ombres et de poussière, vit depuis quarante ans avec le cadavre décomposé de l'homme qu'elle aima.Soleil couchant chante le "blues" bouleversant de Nancy, la Noire qui remplace la gouvernante malade auprès des enfants Compson.Quant à Septembre ardent, c'est sans doute la plus pénétrante des analyses du lynchage : un impénitent redresseur de torts tente en vain de s'opposer au lynchage d'un Noir, injustement accusé d'avoir attaqué insulté, terrorisé une fille blanche à qui le regret de sa jeunesse et l'indifférence des hommes ont tourné la tête.

Genres: Short Stories, Classics, Fiction

148 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.
Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury. The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade, he wrote Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a screenwriter, contributing to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, adapted from Raymond Chandler's novel. The former film, adapted from Ernest Hemingway's novel, is the only film with contributions by two Nobel laureates.
Faulkner's reputation grew following publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner, and he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel." He is the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Faulkner died from a heart attack on July 6, 1962, following a fall from his horse the month before. Ralph Ellison called him "the greatest artist the South has produced".

Reviews

[Yasmine Viret · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bien mais incompréhensible wtf. Ok c’est Faulkner mais on est perdu pendant tout le livre m. Sinon c’est intéressant de voir la mentalité sudiste des états unis après l’abolition de l’esclavage. C’est affreux la façon dont est traité Nancy, cœur sur elle wsh

[Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

تصور می کنم "یک گل سرخ برای امیلی" اولین اثری از فالکنر باشد که به فارسی ترجمه شده، سال ها پیش توسط نجف دریابندری، و گویا در 1334 در جنگ هنر و ادبیات امروز منتشر شده است. سپس تر، در 1362 در مجموعه ای همراه با داستان های دیگری چون "سپتامبر خشک" و "طلا همیشه نیست" از همین مترجم، و توسط انتشارات نیلوفر منتشر شده است.
Though Faulkner writes about Mississipi and Yoknapatawpha, his own imaginary territory of 2400 Miles sq. with 15611 inhabitants, centered by Jefferson city, but I always see every single part of the world in his novels, where the characters are suffering of the situation which is imposed by visible and invisible powers, but they keep going on with life as they have no other possibilities ..

[John Yelverton · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of wonderful stories from the Nobel Prize winning author.

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Rose for Emily - Faulkner at his best.

[Aya Souayh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tellement émouvant, tellement ensorcelant, tellement captivant! Un oeuvre d'art quoi! <3

[Courtney · Rating 4 out of 5]

American Literature II is a class that I am currently taking. During this class we are required to read novels, poems, and short stories that we might not have ever read otherwise. Some are good and some are bad; however, all are legendary and useful for the overall growth of literature everywhere.

[sab · Rating 3 out of 5]

Is it just me or do the stories feel blatantly unfinished? I guess it might be the sole point but it feels very frustrating… I liked the writing style in each short story, I feel like Faulkner manages to capture well the ways of speech of all the different characters he writes about

[Amelie Le Grand · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loses a little bit in the French translation tbh

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

A Rose for Emily, was not the best short-story I've read. I thought it was weird and not in a good way. Faulkner's writing was okay. I really want to read The Sound and the Fury, so I hope it is better than his short-story.

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't actually have this book, but I read "A Rose for Emily" and want to add it to my collection. Faulkner is the master of the Southern Gothic and this is an excellent example. It also serves as a good starting point for someone not already familiar with Faulkner's work.

[Bobby · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading about Faulkner's story about white women reacting after the Civil War.

[Jamie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually have a Japanese collection that includes these three stories as well as "Red Leaves" and extensive notes (mostly for Japanese learners of English). It is edited by Kenzaburo Ohashi.

[Lynley · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not read the entire book due to the fact that the first story, "A Rose for Emily," was rather strange and disturbing.