Robert Penn Warren Knihy

Ústrednou otázkou je vzťah dobra a zla - obe tieto hodnoty autor vidí v dialektickej jednote, pričom často mu vychádza, že zlo sa rodí aj z dobrých pohnútok... autor dostal za román Pulitzerovu cenu

Román Potopa nás zavedie do kentuckého mesta Fiddlersburg, ktoré má onedlho zaplaviť voda z neďalekej novovystavenej priehrady. Vedomie, že mestečko - svedok ich života - sa onedlho nenávratne stratí, núti Fiddlersburčanov hodnotiť a uznať, čo bolo v ich minulom živote vzácne a cenné. Hľadajúpreto odpoveď na otázku osobnej zodpovednosti za svoj život i za životy svojich blízkych. Taký je hlavný hrdina Brad Tolliver, úspešný autor filmových scenárov, Jaša Jones, zase úspešný hollywoodsky režisér, i Maggie Tolliverová Fiddlerová, Bradova sestra.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Movie Tie-in Edition When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its pacing, for its precision of language...I doubt indeed whether it can be matched in American fiction." The Washington Post declared, "If the game of naming the Great American Novel is still being played anywhere, Warren's All the King's Men would easily make the final rounds." Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success and caught between dreams of service and an insatiable lust for power. As relevant today as it was more than fifty years ago, All the King's Men is one of the classics of American literature.

Román byl inspirován osudem reálné osobnosti kentuckého politika, který pokrytecky získá moc, ale ztrácí dceru. V románu se prolínají dramatické osudy lidí, ovlivněných událostmi kolem politické vraždy, k níž došlo ve 20. letech v Tennesee.

Baladický milostný příběh stárnoucí ženy, zasazený do Tennesee šedesátých let.

In his sixth novel, The Cave (1959), Robert Penn Warren tells the story of a young man trapped in a cave in fictional Johntown, Tennessee. His predicament becomes the center of national attention as television cameras, promoters, and newscasters converge on the small town to exploit the rescue attempts and the thousands of spectators gathered at the mouth of the cave.