Intruder in the dust It is not usually included among the handful of masterpieces of William Faulkner (1897-1962) However, upon closer inspection, it is an excellent novel with great literary strength. We could even consider it a very suitable title for readers who want to delve into the author's universe for the first time. It is also one of his works with the most evident anti-racist commitment. This is a noteworthy fact, especially considering that it was published in 1948, several decades before the civil rights movement took center stage in the United States.

William Faulkner (Mississippi, USA, 1897-1962), one of the four or five most influential novelists of the 20th century, perhaps only comparable to Proust, Joyce and Kafka, enjoys a well-deserved fame as a muscular and magmatic prose writer, as a creator of structures in which the living and the dead coexist, and as a builder of primal and brutal characters who, in turn, are of a Shakespearean complexity and depth.