Pilón

"They are not human like us... Scrunch them up and they won't even bleed when you pull them out: it will be lubricating oil..."

William Faulkner had a great passion for the world of airplanes. Pylon is the novel in which he pays tribute to this world of reckless beings who do not hesitate to put their lives in danger for a moment of glory in the air, before the astonished gaze of those attending the show.

In this scenario, the story unfolds of an original love trio formed by the blonde Laverne, Roger Shumann -the closest thing to a classic hero- and a parachutist, a dark character, always limping. Alongside them is an unnamed reporter, in whom it is not difficult to recognize the author's own features. During the days that the aerial festival lasts, he will let himself be dragged along by these extraordinary people who seem to live only for their flying machines.

Critics have said:

"Faulkner delved into the shadows with emotion and talent hardly comparable [...]. Anyone curious about the twentieth-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 infuses it with an intensity that is almost intolerable."

Jorge Luis Borges

"The link between Cervantes and Faulkner lies in the fact that they both add something to the world, illustrate our spirit, by turning 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

"When reading and rereading Faulkner it is forced to suspect that his gaze was different from ours, from that of the common man, from that of the common writer. He looked at landscapes, people, circumstances, he saw something more than what we perceive [...]. 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 to whose classes the European and Spanish-American avant-garde should go."

J. M. Coetzee

"When a novelist succeeds in making his novel transmit to the reader that peremptory, unappealable sensation that what he tells could only happen that way -be told that way-, he has triumphed in every line."

Mario Vargas Llosa

"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 embellished with humor; rather, humor emanates from them, as much from his blood and bones as from his passion and lyricism."

Eudora Welty