ENTRY: Absalom, Absalom! novel by Faulkner (Richard Godden, Encyclopaedia Britannica) ENTRY: William Faulkner American author (Michael Millgate, Encyclopaedia Britannica) AFTERWARD FAULKNER RECORDED THESE VIVID IMPRESSIONS OF A SCENE HE FOUND 'DISCORDED AND BEAUTIFUL' (WILLIAM FAULKNER,, Sports Illustrated) HE WAS SI'S GUEST AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, WHERE MONTREAL PLAYED THE NEW YORK RANGERS. ESSAY: AN INNOCENT AT RINKSIDE: NOBEL PRIZE NOVELIST WILLIAM FAULKNER LAST WEEK SAW HIS FIRST HOCKEY GAME. Foote talked about the writings of William Faulkner and his view of the South (C-SPAN, MAY 2, 2002) VIDEO: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: The panel talked about the works of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning Southern writer William Faulkner. VIDEO: Writings of William Faulkner: From Rowan Oak, William Faulkner’s home, the guests talked about his life and his writings, focusing on the Yoknapatawpha County novels (C-SPAN, MAY 5, 2002) 12 (Interviewed by Jean Stein, SPRING 1956, Paris Review) INTERVIEW: William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No.

LECTURE: 'I decline to accept the end of man.' (William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 1950) ENTRY: William Failkner (Mississippi Writers Page)

Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century See also: William Faulkner ( 5 books reviewed) But as race obsessed tales of dysfunctional inbredĬrackers go, this is one of the best of the lot. Literature of this period is so regional that it is hard to think of itĪs truly American. Product is unsurprisingly just the type of morose scab picking that you Losers ceded the field in literature? Whatever the reason, their To be so central to the American canon in the first half of the century.Īfter all, the winners usually write the history books, so why were the Gothic novelists (Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers, etc.) came There is something fundamentally weird about the way these Southern (stigmata) through a wooden table (his cross). Is the most important character as he plays out a thinly veiled ChristĪllegory, from his initials and last name to his death, shot five times

Heritage fosters a self destructive sense of self-loathing. Intentioned white minister and Joe Christmas-a man whose ambiguous racial Of her baby like an unstoppable force of nature, Gail Hightower-a well Lena-a single mother who trudges through the novel looking for the father TheseĬonflicting impulses are on display here. His novels with themes of sex and violence, yet clinging to a conservativeĪnd romantic love of the region, it's people and it's history. Techniques and attitudes, which necessitated condemning the South and lading Faulkner was basically schizophrenic, attracted by Modernist

As a general rule, I'm not big on Faulkner, but this one is reasonablyĭecent.

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