A review by blueyorkie
Os Ratoneiros by William Faulkner

4.0

Faulkner's latest novel, "The Thieves," as its title indicates, borders more on the ridiculous and the pitiful than on drama and pathos. The comic register, however, rests on a theme dear to Faulkner, that of the irresistible fall of his characters towards the bottom of the precipice, a fall that is nevertheless predictable, as if the awareness of the danger was already a promise of fortune and exaltation as if the constant appeals to Virtue resulted only in the contrary desire of Non-Virtue.