Novels 1926-1929
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Library of America edition of the complete novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four full-length works of fiction, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that were altered or (in the case of...
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The Library of America edition of the complete novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four full-length works of fiction, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that were altered or (in the case of Mosquitoes) expurgated by the original publishers. This is Faulkner as he was meant to be read.In these four novels we can track Faulkner s extraordinary evolution as, over the course of a few years, he discovers and masters the mode and matter of his greatest works. Soldiers Pay (1926) expresses the disillusionment provoked by World War I through its account of the postwar experiences of homecoming soldiers, including a severely wounded R.A.F. pilot, in a style of restless experimentation. In Mosquitoes (1927), a raucous satire of artistic poseurs, many of them modeled after acquaintances of Faulkner in New Orleans, he continues to try out a range of stylistic approaches as he chronicles an ill-fated cruise on Lake Pontchartrain.
With the sprawling Flags in the Dust (published in truncated form in 1929 as Sartoris), Faulkner began his exploration of the mythical region of Mississippi that was to provide the setting for most of his subsequent fiction. Drawing on family history from the Civil War and after, and establishing many characters who recur in his later books, Flags in the Dust marks the crucial turning point in Faulkner s evolution as a novelist.
The volume concludes with Faulkner s masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury (1929). This multilayered telling of the decline of the Compson clan over three generations, with its complex mix of narrative voices and its poignant sense of isolation and suffering within a family, is one of the most stunningly original American novels.
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Autoren-Porträt von William Faulkner
William Faulkner, am 25. September 1897 in New Albany im Staat Missisippi/USA geboren, wuchs in der Nachbarstadt Oxford auf. Im I. Weltkrieg war er Kampfflieger. Nach seiner Rückkehr studierte er Literatur, schlug sich danach in verschiedenen handwerklichen Berufen durch, arbeitete aber auch als Journalist. Schließlich ließ er sich in seiner Heimatstadt als Farmer nieder. Faulkner schrieb zunächst Gedichte später Prosa. Erst die Zuerkennung des Literatur-Nobelpreises im Jahre 1949 machte ihn einem weiteren Publikum bekannt. Viele Themen zog er aus seinem eigenen Hintergrund der niedergegangenen Südstaatenwelt. Der Schriftsteller, der seine Farm in Oxford nie verlassen hat, starb dort am 6. Juli 1962 an einem Herzschlag.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: William Faulkner
- 2006, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Library of America
- ISBN-10: 1931082898
- ISBN-13: 9781931082891
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Englisch
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