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The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the characters voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkners masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. --from The Sound and the Fury
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A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.
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One of the few of William Faulkners works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon , first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois. An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern ménage a trois of flyers on the brainstorming circuit. These characters, Faulkner said, were a fantastic and bizarre phenomenon on the face of the contemporary scene. . . . That is, there was really no place for them in the culture, in the economy, yet they were there, at that time, and everyone knew that they wouldnt last very long, which they didnt. . . . That they were outside the range of God, not only of respectability, of love, but of God too. In Pylon Faulkner set out to test their rootless modernity to see if there is any place in it for the old values of the human heart that are the central concerns of his best fiction.
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The complete text of Faulkners third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris .
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This sequel to Faulkners most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in Sanctuary. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowans child. Told partly in prose, partly in play form, Requiem for a Nun is a haunting exploration of the impact of the past on the present.
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Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! Youll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, youll find out. If its not, throw it out the window. --William Faulkner Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkners most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
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Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions.
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I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. --William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkners mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.
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Voici cinq nouvelles policières signées William Faulkner. Ces énigmes, traités par un grand écrivain, dépassent toutefois le genre policier. Ce n'est pas seulement l'exposé des déductions d'un détective, mais aussi et surtout des peintures de caractères criminels que meuvent la haine aussi bien que l'intérêt.Le héros des cinq récits est Gavin Stevens, procureur de Jefferson, petite ville du Mississippi, qui est au centre de l'oeuvre du romancier. Son ironie et son allure fantastique dissimulent une connaissance de la nature humaine qui lui permet de détourner des catastrophes.La dernière des nouvelles, la plus longue, celle qui donne son titre au livre, est l'histoire d'un capitaine de cavalerie argentin que Gavin sauve de la mort. Elle a les dimensions d'un petit roman.Ce n'est pas à un Faulkner tout à fait inconnu que Le gambit du cavalier nous renvoie, car on retrouve ici la profonde science des êtres du prix Nobel 1949.
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Proses, poésies et essais critiques de jeunesse
William Faulkner
- GALLIMARD
- 2 Décembre 1966
- 9782070223442
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D'où vient Faulkner ? Avec la publication de cette piécette inédite composée en 1920 (c'est le «livre» le plus ancien qu'on ait de lui), on pourra répondre qu'il vient littérairement d'Europe, du XIX? siècle finissant, du symbolisme français (Verlaine, qu'il a «traduit», Mallarmé, qu'il a imité, Laforgue, qu'il a connu, comme tous les Anglo-saxons, à travers les traductions proposées par Arthur Symons) et de la décadence anglaise (en particulier, pour ses dessins, Audrey Beardsley). Il a vingt-trois ans. En France, on se relève de la guerre ; il ne l'a pas faite : sa frustration est immense. Il joue les bohèmes, s'invente une blessure, s'inscrit comme étudiant à l'Université du Mississippi, où il fréquente un club d'art dramatique... du nom de «The Marionettes». Il écrit, puis copie, illustre et relie lui-même la piécette qu'il intitule Les marionnettes : l'art «total».
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Soldiers' Pay is William Faulkner's first published novel. It begins with a train journey on which two American soldiers, Joe Gilligan and Julian Lowe, are returning from the First World War. They meet a scarred, lethargic, and withdrawn fighter pilot, Donald Mahon, who was presumed dead by his family. The novel continues to focus on Mahon and his slow deterioration, and the various romantic complications that arise upon his return home.
Faulkner drew inspiration for this novel from his own experience of the First World War. In the spring of 1918, he moved from his hometown, Oxford, Mississippi, to Yale and worked as an accountant until meeting a Canadian Royal Air Force pilot who encouraged him to join the R.A.F. He then traveled to Toronto, pretended to be British (he affected a British accent and forged letters from British officers and a made-up Reverend), and joined the R.A.F. in the hopes of becoming a hero. But the war ended before he was able to complete his flight training, and, like Julian Lowe, he never witnessed actual combat. Upon returning to Mississippi, he began fabricating various heroic stories about his time in the air force (like narrowly surviving a plane crash with broken legs and metal plates under the skin), and proudly strode around Oxford in his uniform.
Faulkner was encouraged to write Soldiers' Pay by his close friend and fellow writer Sherwood Anderson, whom Faulkner met in New Orleans. Anderson wrote in his Memoirs that he went personally to Horace Liveright-Soldiers' Pay was originally published by Boni & Liveright-to plead for the book.
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The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation. Flem Snopes -- wily, energetic, a man of shady origins -- quickly comes to dominate the town and its people with his cunning and guile.
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Gavin Stevens, the wise and forbearing student of crime and of the folk ways of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, plays the major role in these six stories of violence. In each, Stevenssharp insights and ingenious detection uncover the underlying motives.
