The Story of Barn Burning by William Falkner

The story takes its title from a story by william falkner, which is actually quite a radically different story. I d i didn't know whether he hadconsciously decided to riff on the plot, or if he just took the title. But certainly there are elements that kind of touch on each other. While both of them have as a central figure a kind of psychopathic evil man. It's so interesting, there's a kind of universality about the character. He becomes not just a guy who's annoying, whose seems creepy. And his talk about parallel existence is only only makes this idea a little stronger.