William Faulkner (1897–1962)
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Born in an old Mississippi family, William Faulkner made his home in Oxford, seat of the University of Mississippi. After the fifth grade he went to school only off and on-lived, read, and wrote much as he pleased. In 1918, refusing to enlist with the "Yankees," he joined the Canadian Air Force, vis mere and was transferred to the British Royal Air Force. After the war he studied a little at the University, did house painting, worked as a night superintendent at a power plant, went to New Orleans and became a friend of Sherwood Anderson, then to Europe and back home to Oxford. By this time he had written two novels. The Sound and the Fury followed in 1929. Financial success came with Sanctuary in 1931, which he assisted in filming. Faulkner 's novels are intense in their character portrayals of disintegrating Southern aristocrats, poor whites, and African Americans. A complex stream-of-consciousness rhetoric often involves Faulkner in lengthy sentences of anguished power. Most of his tales are set in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and are characterized by the use of many recurring characters from families of different social levels spanning more than a century. His best subjects are the old, dying South and the newer materialistic South. As I Lay Dying (1930), is a grotesquely tragicomic story about a family of poor southern whites. With Absalom, Absalom! (1936); the difficult parts of his famous short novel "The Bear" (published in Go Down, Moses, 1942); and the allegorical A Fable (1954), a non-Yoknapatawpha novel set in France during World War I; Faulkner returned to an innovative and difficult style that most readers have trouble with. Yet, interspersed among such works are collections of easily read stories originally published in popular magazines. There seems to be a growing sentiment among critics that the Snopes trilogy-The Hamlet (1940), The Town (1957), and The Mansion (1959)-for the most part an example of Faulkner's "moderate" style, could well be among his most important works. Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature "for his powerful and artistically independent contribution to the new American novel," but it would appear now that he also deserved to win that honor for his contribution to world literature. When reporting his death, the Boston Globe quoted Faulkner's having once told an interviewer: "Since man is mortal, the only immortality for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. That is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must some day pass." In addition to the Nobel Prize, Faulkner received the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1950, and in 1951 he was given the National Book Award for his Collected Stories Collected Stories. For his novel A Fable he received the National Book Award for the second time, as well as the Pulitzer Prize in 1955. The Reivers (1962) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. In 1957 and 1958, he was the University of Virginia's first writer-in-residence, and in January 1959 he accepted an appointment as consultant on contemporary literature to the Alderman Library of that university. Although Faulkner was not without honors in his lifetime and has received world recognition since then, it is surprising to learn that, when Malcolm Cowley edited The Portable Faulkner in 1946, he found that almost all of Faulkner's books were out of print. By arranging selections from the works to form a continuous chronicle, Cowley deserves much of the credit for making readers aware of the way in which Faulkner was creating a fictive world on a scale grander than that of any novelist since Balzac. William Faulkner died in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1962. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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(eng) This is not the same person as William Falkner (d. 1682), English theologian. Do not combine the two.
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Værker af William Faulkner
Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet (1990) 585 eksemplarer
Novels 1942-1954 : Go Down, Moses / Intruder in the Dust / Requiem for a Nun / A Fable (1994) — Forfatter — 467 eksemplarer
Novels 1926-1929 : Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury (2006) 393 eksemplarer
Faulkner in the university : class conferences at the University of Virginia, 1957-1958 (1959) 79 eksemplarer
Works of William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury / Sanctuary / Light in August / As I Lay Dying (1956) 50 eksemplarer
Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925 (1992) 33 eksemplarer
Ghosts of Rowan Oak: William Faulkner's Ghost Stories for Children (1980) — Bidragyder — 30 eksemplarer
William Faulkner: Stories (LOA #375): Knight's Gambit / Collected Stories / Big Woods / Other Works (Library of… (1940) 29 eksemplarer
Dry September 23 eksemplarer
A Fable: William Faulkner Manuscripts 20, Volume I: Miscellaneous Manuscript & Typescript Pages, Part 1 (1987) 12 eksemplarer
Czerwone liście : opowiadania 11 eksemplarer
Yoknapatawpha vanaaeg. jutustused / 1 {Yoknapatawpha Olden Time: Tales} — Forfatter — 8 eksemplarer
As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text 8 eksemplarer
Lo! 8 eksemplarer
Obras escogidas: Mientras agonizo / Pylon / Los invictos / El Villorío / Desciende,Moises! (1962) 8 eksemplarer
William Faulkner Novels: 1936-1940 7 eksemplarer
León en el jardín: (Entrevistas 1926-1962) (Reino de Redonda) (Spanish Edition) (2021) 7 eksemplarer
William Faulkners Nobelpristale 6 eksemplarer
Yoknapatawpha uusaeg. jutustused / 2 {Yoknapatawpha Modern Times: Tales} — Forfatter — 6 eksemplarer
Red Leaves {story} — Forfatter — 5 eksemplarer
Shimgles for the Lord 5 eksemplarer
Obras escogidas 5 eksemplarer
The Modern Library 4 eksemplarer
Hell Creek Crossing 4 eksemplarer
The Saint Magazine Reader 4 eksemplarer
A Justice 4 eksemplarer
世界文学全集 : カラー版. 第50巻 (フォークナー). 3 eksemplarer
Contes 3 eksemplarer
William Faulkner Manuscripts 22, Volumes I and II: The Mansion: The Early Typescript, Parts 1 and 2 3 eksemplarer
Father Abraham Tree: William Faulkner Manuscripts II: Holograph Manuscript and Typescripts; and, The Wishing Tree:… (1987) 3 eksemplarer
Septembertørke og andre noveller 3 eksemplarer
Best-in-Books: Grand Hotel / Voice of Bugle Ann / Life with Father / Mutiny on the Bounty / Postman Always Rings Twice (1962) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
William Faulkner Premium Collection, 7 Novels: Soldier's Pay / Mosquitoes / The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying /… 3 eksemplarer
Kirjailijan työ : Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Kurt Vonnegut (1985) 3 eksemplarer
Mule in the Yard 3 eksemplarer
Honor 3 eksemplarer
A Courtship 3 eksemplarer
Stary 3 eksemplarer
That Will Be Fine 3 eksemplarer
A hang és a téboly ; Míg fekszem kiterítve : két regény 3 eksemplarer
A Bear Hunt 3 eksemplarer
The Broach 3 eksemplarer
Centaur in Brass 3 eksemplarer
Elly 3 eksemplarer
William Faulkner Reads: The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and Selections from As I Lay Dying, A Fable, and The Old Man (1992) 3 eksemplarer
The Reivers: William Faulkner Manuscripts 23, Volume II: Typescript Setting Copy (1986) 2 eksemplarer
Faulkner William (William Falkner) 2 eksemplarer
Faulkner 2 eksemplarer
Light in August / The Mansion 2 eksemplarer
I negri e gli indiani 2 eksemplarer
William Faulkner Reads: The Old Man and More 2 eksemplarer
Requiem for a Nun: William Faulkner Manuscripts 19, Volume IV: Playscript Materials (1987) 2 eksemplarer
Works of William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury / Sanctuary / Light in August / As I Lay Dying (1929) 2 eksemplarer
The Reivers, 1962 (William Faulkner Manuscripts) 2 eksemplarer
Rare -William Faulkner THE REIVERS 1962 First edition Pulitzer Prize Novel Filmed DJ [Hardcover] William Faulkner 2 eksemplarer
The Hill 2 eksemplarer
Hajnali hajtóvadászat : elbeszélések 2 eksemplarer
Selected Letters of William Faulkner (Franklin Library: Limited First Edition for The First Edition Society) 2 eksemplarer
Tomorrow 2 eksemplarer
Correspondance Malcolm Cowley-William Faulkner.Lettres et souvenirs de 1944 à 1962 commentés par M.Cowley traduit de… (1970) 2 eksemplarer
Divorce in Naples 2 eksemplarer
Mistral 2 eksemplarer
The Leg 2 eksemplarer
There Was a Queen 2 eksemplarer
Salmagundi 2 eksemplarer
Golden Land 2 eksemplarer
Crevasse 2 eksemplarer
The Tall Men 2 eksemplarer
I fantasmi di Rowan Oak. Storie di sogno e di paura scritte e raccontate da William Faulkner (2005) 2 eksemplarer
As I Lay Dying (Vintage books) (Paperback) - Common 2 eksemplarer
Het vuur en de haard 2 eksemplarer
4 Books By William Faulkner--Intruder in the Dust, the Portable Faulkner, the Hamlet, Flags in the Dust (Poor… 2 eksemplarer
Fox Hunt 2 eksemplarer
Victory 2 eksemplarer
Carcassonne — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Beyond 2 eksemplarer
Death Drag 2 eksemplarer
Shall Not Perish 2 eksemplarer
Artist at Home 2 eksemplarer
THE SOUND AND THE FURY Facsimile First Edition 1 eksemplar
Smásögur 1 eksemplar
Svetloba v avgustu 1 eksemplar
Smasogur 1 eksemplar
Pensando a casa. Lettere alla madre e al padre 1 eksemplar
"Shall Not Perish" 1 eksemplar
Khi tôi nằm chết 1 eksemplar
Konjicki gambit 1 eksemplar
Collected Stories Volume I 1 eksemplar
Obras Completas VI 1 eksemplar
DIVLJE PALME - STARAC 1 eksemplar
“The Tall Men” 1 eksemplar
"A Bear Hunt" 1 eksemplar
"Hair" 1 eksemplar
Snobovi 1 eksemplar
Descends, Moise 1 eksemplar
Une Ballade Des Dames Perdues 1 eksemplar
The long, hot summer [video recording] 1 eksemplar
නිරා ලය 1 eksemplar
Rare William Faulkner / The Unvanquished Sartoris Stories First Edition 1938 [Hardcover] Faulkner, William 1 eksemplar
Santuario - Luce d' Agosto 1 eksemplar
Αβεσσαλώμ Αβεσσαλώμ 1 eksemplar
Η Βουή Και Η Αντάρα 1 eksemplar
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Copacul Dorintelor 1 eksemplar
DUMAN 1 eksemplar
TYMI 1 eksemplar
ΟΙ ΚΛΕΦΤΕΣ 1 eksemplar
Dosegimde Olurken - Ayi 1 eksemplar
Lekeli Gunler 1 eksemplar
O Aksam Gunesi 1 eksemplar
Семь рассказов 1 eksemplar
Obras Completas II 1 eksemplar
Сарторис. Медведь. Осквернитель праха 1 eksemplar
Собрание рассказов 1 eksemplar
La Pallida Zilphia Gant 1 eksemplar
Obras Completas III 1 eksemplar
A William Faulkner Reader 1 eksemplar
Requiem For A Nun (Playbill) [Vol 3 No 4] 1 eksemplar
William Faulkner: The Complete Works 1 eksemplar
Φως στον Αύγουστο 1 eksemplar
Light in August pb 1 eksemplar
the Man and the Artist (pb) 1 eksemplar
By William Faulkner The Sound And the Fury (Pmc) (Modern Classics) (New impression) [Paperback] 1 eksemplar
LIGHT IN AUGUST Easton Press 1 eksemplar
The Reivers...a Reminiscence 1 eksemplar
William FAULKNER / The Town 1957 1 eksemplar
William Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929: Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury 1 eksemplar
Rare William Faulkner ABSALOM, ABSALOM! Modern Library #271 c. 1951 HC/DJ [Hardcover] William Faulkner 1 eksemplar
Megszületik augusztusban regény 1 eksemplar
Az öreg [kisregény] 1 eksemplar
Três Histórias de Guerra 1 eksemplar
Humphrey Bogart Classics: Volume 2 — Writer — 1 eksemplar
Palmeiras Bravas | Rio Velho Edição 80 anos 1 eksemplar
Ensaios, Discursos e Cartas Públicas 1 eksemplar
Sports Illustrated, Volume 2 Number 4 1 eksemplar
Monk [short story] 1 eksemplar
Amerikaanse verhalen — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Obras escogidas TOMO II: Una fabula-El ruido y la furia-Santuario-Absalom,absalom-novelas cortas (1960) 1 eksemplar
William Faulkner Manuscripts 19, Volumes I, II, and III: Requiem for a Nun: Preliminary Holograph and Typescript… (1987) 1 eksemplar
Requiem for a Nun: William Faulkner Manuscripts 19, Volume III: Typescript Setting Copy (1987) 1 eksemplar
A Fable (William Faulkner Manuscripts 20, Volume 2: Miscellaneous Manuscript & Typescript Pages Part 2) 1 eksemplar
Elmer; and, "A Portrait of Elmer": William Faulker Manuscripts I: The Typescripts, Manuscripts, and Miscellaneous Pages (1987) 1 eksemplar
My Grandmother Millard 1 eksemplar
Pylon: William Faulkner Manuscripts 12: Typescript Setting Copy and Miscellaneous Holograph Pages (1987) 1 eksemplar
"Unpublished" Stories: William Faulkner Manuscripts 25: Typescripts and Manuscripts (1987) 1 eksemplar
Larmen Og Vreden 1 eksemplar
Obras Completas III 1 eksemplar
Absalom, Absalom! Griff in den Staub. Der Bär. Die Spitzbuben. Eine Legende. Sartoris. Dürrer September. Als… (1963) 1 eksemplar
A Cosmos of My Own 1 eksemplar
Erzählungen II 1 eksemplar
The Evening Sun 1 eksemplar
A Guest's Impression of New England 1 eksemplar
Folklore of the Air 1 eksemplar
The Waifs 1 eksemplar
Sartoris / The Bear / Intruder in the Dust — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Du noveloj de usona verkisto William Faulkner 1 eksemplar
Ci wielcy ludzie : opowiadania 1 eksemplar
Absalom, Absalom! / Intruder in the Dust / Light in August / The Reivers / The Sound and the Fury 1 eksemplar
An Error in Chemistry 1 eksemplar
With Caution and Dispatch 1 eksemplar
A Point of Law 1 eksemplar
Hand Upon the Waters 1 eksemplar
Pennsylvania Station 1 eksemplar
The Mansion: Typescript Setting Copy & Miscellaneous Material (William Faulkner Manuscripts 22, Volumes III & IV) (1991) 1 eksemplar
Faulkner's University Pieces 1 eksemplar
Opere 1 eksemplar
Selected Short Works of William Faulkner — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
The Hound 1 eksemplar
Delta Autumn 1 eksemplar
My Grandmother Millard And General Bedford Forrest And The Battle Of Harrykin Creek (My Grandmother Millard) 1 eksemplar
The Road to Glory 1 eksemplar
Country Lawyer 1 eksemplar
O Homem e o Rio Livro 1 1 eksemplar
This earth : a poem 1 eksemplar
کتاب صوتی گور به گور 1 eksemplar
البعوض 1 eksemplar
Zstąp, Mojżeszu 1 eksemplar
2003 1 eksemplar
TRE RÖVARE 1 eksemplar
Duman 1 eksemplar
Pobertové : reminiscence 1 eksemplar
Byn roman 1 eksemplar
Rare Light in August, William Faulkner, Tale Mississippi, Modern Library 1950 HC-DJ (1950) 1 eksemplar
Fumo 1 eksemplar
Zascianek 1 eksemplar
Rare -SELECTED LETTERS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER First ed! Deluxe Leather! & Companion Guide (1976) 1 eksemplar
Kırmızı Yapraklar 1 eksemplar
Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow 1 eksemplar
Rose of Lebanon 1 eksemplar
Novelas escogidas, II (Una fábula; El ruido y la furia; Santuario; ¡Absalom, Absalom!; Novelas cortas) 1 eksemplar
The Faulkner Reader: The Sound and Fury Complete, selections from other novels, 3 novellas, nine stories, etc (1954) 1 eksemplar
Faulkner - Premio Nobel 1949 1 eksemplar
Aşk ve Ölüm 1 eksemplar
Extrait - L'Intrus 1 eksemplar
El ruido y la furia Mientras agonizo 1 eksemplar
Neodpočívej v pokoji 1 eksemplar
2 Volumes of William Faulkner Books: 1) Light in August 2) The Sound and The Fury (1969) 1 eksemplar
Collected Storeies Vol. II 1 eksemplar
The Story of My Life 1 eksemplar
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The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors (1994) — Bidragyder — 317 eksemplarer
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 183 eksemplarer
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The Best Short Stories of 1932 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1932) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Yoknapatawpha, Images and Voices: A Photographic Study of Faulkner's County (2009) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1941) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Faulkner, William
- Juridisk navn
- Faulkner, William Cuthbert
- Andre navne
- Faulkner, Will
- Fødselsdato
- 1897-09-25
- Dødsdag
- 1962-07-06
- Begravelsessted
- St. Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New Albany, Mississippi, USA
- Dødssted
- Byhalia, Mississippi, USA
- Dødsårsag
- suffered a serious injury in a fall from his horse, which led to thrombosis
- Bopæl
- Oxford, Mississippi, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Uddannelse
- University of Mississippi
- Erhverv
- novelist
short story writer
poet
literary critic
essayist
screenwriter (vis alle 14)
playwright
bank clerk
postmaster
roof painter
carpenter
deckhand
coal shoveler
pilot - Relationer
- Faulkner, John (brother)
Falkner, Murry C. (brother)
Faulkner, Jim (nephew)
Falkner, William Clark (great-grandfather)
Percy, William Alexander (friend)
Anderson, Sherwood (friend) (vis alle 9)
West, Nathanael (friend)
Franklin, Malcolm A. (stepson)
Wells, Dean Faulkner (niece) - Organisationer
- British Armed Forces
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
University of Mississippi (postmaster)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (screenwriter)
Warner Brothers (screenwriter) (vis alle 8)
University of Virginia (writer-in-residence)
National Institute of Arts and Letters - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Nobel Prize (Literature, 1949)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1939)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1948)
William Dean Howells Medal (1950)
Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur (1951)
Silver Medal of the Greek Academy (1957) (vis alle 8)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1962)
Created the PEN/Faulkner Award - Kort biografi
- William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.
Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919 and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner's renown reached its peak upon the publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner and his 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), each won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) appears on similar lists. - Oplysning om flertydighed
- This is not the same person as William Falkner (d. 1682), English theologian. Do not combine the two.
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Folio Society Devotees: Sound and Fury i Folio Society Devotees (oktober 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy, Volume III, The Mansion i Club Read 2023 (september 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy, Volume II, The Town i Club Read 2023 (august 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy Group Read: The Hamlet i Club Read 2023 (juli 2023)
The Sound and the Fury LE i Folio Society Devotees (maj 2021)
Faulkner and james Branch Cabell i William Faulkner and his Literary Kin (oktober 2020)
As I Lay Dying: The More You Know. i William Faulkner and his Literary Kin (november 2018)
William Faulkner- American Author Challenge i 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (marts 2014)
LIGHT IN AUGUST - Group Read Discussion Thread i 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (august 2013)
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"Jeg var blevet den fuldkomne familiefader. ... Vi boede i en lejlighed, der ikke var bohemeagtig, end ikke de nygiftes banale rede, det var ikke engang i den del af byen, men i et kvarter, der både som distrikt og arkitektur var tilegnet andet års ægteskaber blandt fem-tusind-om-året-kliken." (s. 100)
Hvorfor denne frygt? Det handler sikkert om, at det var Charlotte, der tog initiativ til affæren, og hvis hun engang har forladt en mand, når hverdagen satte ind, kan hun vel gøre det igen. Men nedenunder ligger også et syn på den kvindelige drift, som kilden til bevægelsen mod den uundgåelige undergang.
Den anden historie forgår ti år tidligere under den store oversvømmelse, da Mississippi gik over sine bredder og skyllede hele byer bort. En ung straffefange bliver sendt ud for at redde en kvinde i et træ, og han får hende også samlet op, men driver så bort med strømmen. Det bliver en lang og sælsom rejse tilbage, mens han desperat prøver at slippe for ansvaret for kvinden - hun er oven i købet også gravid, så snart er der også et barn. Romantik er der til gengæld ikke meget af mellem dem.
Fangen opgiver tilsyneladende sin frihed, men det er kun på overfladen. I virkeligheden finder han sin virkelige frihed i fængslet, hvor han slipper for kvinder og kun skal forholde sig til sit muldyr, som han til gengæld forstår.
Der kommer kort sagt ikke meget godt ud af kønnenes møde i denne roman, og det verdensbillede kan godt være svært at sluge for en skabsromantiker som mig.
Til gengæld er beskrivelserne af det oversvømmede landskab fantastiske:
"Og så ... mens de roligt så sig om, forsvandt kammene mellem furerne også, og de så kun et enkelt, fuldkommen fladt og ubevægeligt stålfarvet vandspejl, hvori telefonpælene og de lige hække, som dannede skillelinjer mellem markerne, syntes at stå så faste og stive, som om de var sat ned i beton." (s. 52)
Jeg har ikke tidligere læst William Faulkner, og umiddelbart er jeg heller ikke lige så begejstret for ham som for hans to store samtidige landsmænd, Steinbeck og Hemingway. Der er ikke de gribende menneskeportrætter som hos Steinbeck, og der er slet ikke den ordknappe, præcise stil som hos Hemingway. Men der er noget voldsomt insisterende over hans skriveform, som gør det svært at ryste historien af sig. Det er skæbnedramaer, som kun kan slutte på én måde, men man er alligevel tvunget til at følge historien til ende.… (mere)