福克纳William Faulkner的简介
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Mr. Compson is an alcoholic. Mrs. Compson is a selfabsorbed hypochondriac who depends almost entirely upon Dilsey to raise her four children. Quentin, the oldest child, is a sensitive bundle of neuroses. Caddy, his sister, is stubborn, but loving and compassionate. Quentin commited suicide after Caddy's losing her virginity and their family's decline. Jason has been difficult and mean-spirited since birth and is largely spurned by the other children. Benjy is severely mentally disabled, an “idiot” with no understanding of the concepts of time or morality.
2. The novel also tells a story of deterioration from the past to the present and the author idealizes the past.
Techniques and Style
1. Characterization: authorial transcendence 2. A fallible narrator: stream of consciousness & interior monologue 3. Multiple narrators: multiple points of view 4. Disruption of time sequence 5. Open-endedness
A representative of the wrwenku.baidu.comters using stream of consciousness.
I. Life and Career
Born in Albany Mississippi; 4-5 moved to Oxford, Mississippi, model of his fictional Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha county, his family members prototypes for his fictional characters.
II. Major Works
19 novels and 4 volumes of short stories (75), two volumes of poetry
His works are regarded as the summit of Southern literature.
The mythical county of Yoknapatawpha: 15 saga novels and most of his short stories; symbol of his works; one of the most famous imaginary places in literature.
Major themes:
Here is “a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing.”
1. The spiritual deterioration which characterizes modern life stems from the loss of love and want of emotional response.
William Faulkner
(1897-1962)
One of the most influential writers of the 20th century
One of the leading American writers in the literary history of the United States.
Part1: Benjy (the youngest son), a fool Part 2: Quentin (the oldest son)，a suicide Part 3: Jason (the second son)，a cynical man Part 4: Dilsey (the maid), the omniscient view
The Hamlet (1940) 《村子》 The Town (1957) 《小镇》 The Mansion (1959)《大宅》 Short Story collection: The Unvanquished, 《没有被征服的人》(1938)
Awards
1. One of three finalists for the first Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Award(1946)
The Compsons are one of several prominent names in the town of Jefferson, Mississippi. Their ancestors helped settle the area and subsequently defended it during the Civil War. Since the war, the Compsons have gradually seen their wealth, land, and status crumble away.
Style:
Words are often run together, with no capitalization and no proper punctuation.
Variety of language usage: ranging from colloquial, regional dialects to highly charged courtroom rhetoric, covering a variety of “registers” of the English language.
Thank you！
volume of poetry, 11 novels Early 1940s, forgotten by the public 1945, a second rise to fame, higher than the first 1949, Nobel Prize for Literature
4. National Book Awards twice: Collected Stories，1951
A Fable ， 1955
William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
The Sound and the Fury
Described the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, from four different points of view:
2. Nobel Prize Winner(1949) As I Lay Dying（1930） For "his powerful and artistically
unique contribution to the
modern American novel."
3. Pulitzer Winner twice: A Fable , 1955 The Reivers , 1963
1925, first novel published, Soldier’s Pay 《军饷》
1929, two novels: Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury 1929-1942, most productive: 2 short-story collections, a
Best-known works
The Sound and The Fury (1929) 《喧嚣与骚动》 As I Lay Dying (1930) 《我弥留之际》 Sanctuary (1931) 《圣殿》 Light in August (1932) 《八月之光》 Absalom, Absalom (1936)《押沙龙！押沙龙！》 Go Down, Moses (1942) 《去吧，摩西》 Trilogy of the Snopes family
2. The novel also tells a story of deterioration from the past to the present and the author idealizes the past.
Techniques and Style
1. Characterization: authorial transcendence 2. A fallible narrator: stream of consciousness & interior monologue 3. Multiple narrators: multiple points of view 4. Disruption of time sequence 5. Open-endedness
A representative of the wrwenku.baidu.comters using stream of consciousness.
I. Life and Career
Born in Albany Mississippi; 4-5 moved to Oxford, Mississippi, model of his fictional Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha county, his family members prototypes for his fictional characters.
II. Major Works
19 novels and 4 volumes of short stories (75), two volumes of poetry
His works are regarded as the summit of Southern literature.
The mythical county of Yoknapatawpha: 15 saga novels and most of his short stories; symbol of his works; one of the most famous imaginary places in literature.
Major themes:
Here is “a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing.”
1. The spiritual deterioration which characterizes modern life stems from the loss of love and want of emotional response.
William Faulkner
(1897-1962)
One of the most influential writers of the 20th century
One of the leading American writers in the literary history of the United States.
Part1: Benjy (the youngest son), a fool Part 2: Quentin (the oldest son)，a suicide Part 3: Jason (the second son)，a cynical man Part 4: Dilsey (the maid), the omniscient view
The Hamlet (1940) 《村子》 The Town (1957) 《小镇》 The Mansion (1959)《大宅》 Short Story collection: The Unvanquished, 《没有被征服的人》(1938)
Awards
1. One of three finalists for the first Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Award(1946)
The Compsons are one of several prominent names in the town of Jefferson, Mississippi. Their ancestors helped settle the area and subsequently defended it during the Civil War. Since the war, the Compsons have gradually seen their wealth, land, and status crumble away.
Style:
Words are often run together, with no capitalization and no proper punctuation.
Variety of language usage: ranging from colloquial, regional dialects to highly charged courtroom rhetoric, covering a variety of “registers” of the English language.
Thank you！
volume of poetry, 11 novels Early 1940s, forgotten by the public 1945, a second rise to fame, higher than the first 1949, Nobel Prize for Literature
4. National Book Awards twice: Collected Stories，1951
A Fable ， 1955
William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
The Sound and the Fury
Described the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, from four different points of view:
2. Nobel Prize Winner(1949) As I Lay Dying（1930） For "his powerful and artistically
unique contribution to the
modern American novel."
3. Pulitzer Winner twice: A Fable , 1955 The Reivers , 1963
1925, first novel published, Soldier’s Pay 《军饷》
1929, two novels: Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury 1929-1942, most productive: 2 short-story collections, a
Best-known works
The Sound and The Fury (1929) 《喧嚣与骚动》 As I Lay Dying (1930) 《我弥留之际》 Sanctuary (1931) 《圣殿》 Light in August (1932) 《八月之光》 Absalom, Absalom (1936)《押沙龙！押沙龙！》 Go Down, Moses (1942) 《去吧，摩西》 Trilogy of the Snopes family