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“Barn Burning” (1938) William Faulkner William Faulkner (1897-1962) Greatest American Southern writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1950 A master of modernist experimentation in the novel, related to his obsession with time stream of consciousness, temporal shifts, and multiple voices Some major novels: The Sound and the Fury (1929) [4 narrators], As I Lay Dying (1930) [15 narrators], Absalom! Absalom! (1936) Colonel William Clark Falkner (1826-89) Faulkner’s great-grandfather Civil War Veteran Politician Popular Romantic Novelist (The White Rose of Memphis, 1881) Died of gunshot wound from former business partner William Faulkner (1897-1962) Born William Falkner, 25 Sept. 1897, New Albany, Mississippi 1918: joins Canadian Royal Air Force 1919-20 U of Mississippi 1921: U of Mississippi Post Office Faulkner: Early Publications 1924: The Marble Faun (poems) 1925: travels in Europe 1927: Mosquitoes 1928: Sartoris Faulkner: Major Phase 1929: The Sound and the Fury 1930 As I Lay Dying 1931: Sanctuary 1932: Light in August 1935: Pylon 1936: Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner in Hollywood: 1930s Faulkner: Later Fiction 1938: The Unvanquished; “Barn Burning” 1940: The Hamlet 1942: Go Down, Moses 1948: Intruder in the Dust Faulkner’s Critical Reputation Better regarded in Europe than in U.S. Then: 1946: The Portable Faulkner 1950: Nobel Prize for Literature Faulkner, after the Nobel 1954: A Fable (Pulitzer Prize) 1957: The Town 1959: The Mansion 1962: The Reivers William Faulkner (1897-1962) His great theme is the influence of the past on the present Gavin Stevens in Requiem for a Nun (1951), says: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” “[T]o me,” Faulkner remarked, “no man is himself, he is the sum of his past. There is no such thing really as was because the past is. It is a part of every man, every woman, and every moment. All of his and her ancestry, background, is all a part of himself and herself at any moment.” Yoknapatawpha County Faulkner’s apocryp