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William Faulkner(1897-1962) Brief introduction Literature contribution Style and techniques Statue A Rose for Emily ? William Cuthbert Faulkner ? Nationality: American ? Birthday: September 25, 1897 ? Birthplace: New Albany, Mississippi ? Remarks: ? A towering figure in American literature during the first half of the 20th century ? Considered one of the two greatest American novelists of his era with Ernest Hemingway ? One of the representives of Southern renaissance in American literature Life in the South: Oxford, Miss., model of his fictional Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha county, his family members prototypes for his fictional characters Two influential figures: Philip Stone, Sherwood Anderson 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 volume of poetry, 11 novels 1949, Nobel Prize for Literature A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Literature Contributions Major Novels : The Sound and the Fury(1929) 《喧哗与骚动》 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！》 The Hamlet(1940) 《村子》 The Town(1957) 《小镇》 The Mansion(1959)《大宅》 — SnopesTrilogy“斯诺普斯三部曲” Books of short stories: These Thirteen (1931) 《十三篇》 Go down, Moses(1942) 《去吧，摩西》 The Collected Stories of William Fanlkner(1950) 《福克纳短篇小说集》 A. Characterization: authorial transcendence The author tries to withdraw from making conclusion and judgment, letting the characters explain themselves and hindering as little as possible the reader’s direct experience of the work of art. B. A fallible narrator: stream of consciousness interior monologu Telling a story by reco