Western Literature Faulkner

western literature Faulkner

American novelist. Born in the family of a descendant of a manor owner in northern Mississippi, southern United States. His great-grandfather was an influential Confederate general during the Civil War, wrote a best-selling novel, killed someone in a vendetta and was later killed. He had a great influence on Faulkner. Faulkner only attended two years of middle school and one year of college, but he read widely. He was familiar with the works of Dickens, Balzac, Cervantes and other famous writers. Baudelaire, Malarme, Willem and other symbolist writers and modernist works, as well as the works of Wilde, Joyce, T.S. Eliot and others all had a profound influence on him. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. His first novels, The Reward of Soldiers (1926) and Mosquitoes (1927), were ignored. In order to make a living, he has done all kinds of chores. In 1929, his Sha dorris was published, which was his first fictional novel set in Yoknapatafa County. Among them, there are many themes that will be further developed in the novels of York Napa Law System in the future. In October of the same year, The Sound and the Fury was published, which described the Compson family from four different angles to symbolize the decay and decline of moral order in southern society. The application of stream of consciousness and the profound meaning of symbol in the novel are extraordinary. It is his first successful work. The above period from 1924 to 1929 was the initial stage of his creation. In the middle period (193-1942), there were two collections of short stories and nine novels. Among them, As I Lay Dying (193) described how a poor white family went through fire and flood to bury their mother in Jefferson, the seat of the county capital of York Napafa, which was like "Odessa" and "Exodus" of modern people, but it was terrible and ridiculous, sad and funny. Joe Krismer, the hero of Light in August (1932), is suspected of being of black descent, so he can't be seen in black and white societies. Absalom, Absalom! "(1936) is close to" The Sound and the Fury ",and also writes the story of the manor owner and his descendants; Village (194) is the first trilogy describing the Snoops family who tried to get rich by hook or by crook. Snoops was poor. Loan sharks, married a pregnant and dowry Euler; Sell wild horses as training horses; Fake elephant. People mistakenly think that the land with a cellar is sold at a high price. Go Moses (1942) describes the wilderness of Mississippi and the life of the white and black descendants of a planter who lived there. Among them, The Bear is the most important novella. It is written that Ike McCaslin, a teenager, learned many excellent qualities of Indian Sam Fazes through hunting. The virgin forest is pure and purifies the soul, and even the old bear is noble. On the contrary, the young grandfather and his manor are sinful. Grandfather occupied a black woman, gave birth to a hybrid, and his daughter grew up and became his new mistress. In order to keep his conscience clean and give up his legacy, Ike is willing to be a carpenter on his own.

in the 194s, Faulkner's works were ignored. In order to make a living, he had to go to Hollywood to write movie scripts. In 1946, The Complete Works of pocket edition Faulkner was published. This paper introduces the theme of his novels of York Napa's descent, and re-attracts public attention. In 1949, Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and made a famous speech, predicting that mankind would survive in a world on the verge of self-destruction, which made him famous. During this period, he wrote five more novels, including the last two of Snoops' trilogy. The trilogy is Small Town, Mansion and Grave Intruder, with the theme of writing about the spiritual growth of young Charles Merrison. Recognize the courage, nobility and wisdom of black people. Requiem for Nuns (1951), the sequel to The Temple, has a contrast between the quiet life in the countryside and the city, which is a reflection of the author's mood. Fable (1954) has anti-war thoughts. The Predator (1962) wrote a story about a child, a servant and a driver who mistook a brothel for a hotel and stayed in it, which made many jokes. When a child becomes an old man, there is a rustic humor in recalling this past.

Faulkner's novels of Yorknapatawfa lineage have unprecedented characteristics of American novels: local color, sense of history and sense of local society. A fable that reflects the social and historical situation in the southern United States and symbolizes the fate of mankind. Compassion for black people and southern nationalism. The creative methods are ever-changing and have their own characteristics. He adopts symbolism and modernist techniques, such as inner monologue. His original skill is to delay the explanation of the meaning and not directly point out the theme. At the same time, it has the influence of traditional works' technical style, with obscure and complicated style and simple and clear language, which has both Shakespeare's exaggeration and American South-style humor.