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A socially engaged novel by an American author captures, through a complex composition that intertwines narratives and alternates between the present and flashbacks, the dramatic confrontation of two Americans in an Italian town. A free-spirited painter, fleeing the uniformity of the American high standard of living, Southern caste systems, and American class injustice, encounters an American millionaire who assumes the role of a modern Mephistopheles. In a story ignited by human passions that culminates in violence and murder, William Styron expresses a protest against the degradation of humanity.
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Set This House on Fire, William Styron
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- Année de publication
- 1961
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- William Styron
- Éditeur
- Signet Book
- Publié
- 1961
- Format
- souple
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Meurtres, Littérature américaine, Europe du Sud, Italie, Roman social, Viol
- Première publication
- 1960
- Titre original
- Set This House on Fire
- Évaluation
- 3,9 sur 5
- Description
- A socially engaged novel by an American author captures, through a complex composition that intertwines narratives and alternates between the present and flashbacks, the dramatic confrontation of two Americans in an Italian town. A free-spirited painter, fleeing the uniformity of the American high standard of living, Southern caste systems, and American class injustice, encounters an American millionaire who assumes the role of a modern Mephistopheles. In a story ignited by human passions that culminates in violence and murder, William Styron expresses a protest against the degradation of humanity.