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William Faulkner

William Faulkner. The Unvanquished. William Faulkner. a native of Mississippi a product of the Reconstruction and eyewitness to the changing South of the 20th century

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William Faulkner

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  1. WilliamFaulkner • The Unvanquished

  2. William Faulkner • a native of Mississippi • a product of the Reconstruction and eyewitness to the changing South of the 20th century • Faulkner’s world is transcendent -- it represents a chronicle of a very particular place and time, yet it speaks to all humanity • Faulkner is one of few American novelists to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature • others include Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and, most recently, Toni Morrison

  3. Faulkner’s Home

  4. Faulknerian Style • Faulkner is best-labeled a MODERNIST -- a writer who is consciously attempting to do new things • his writing is characterized by the following elements: • complex sentence structure frequented by commas, dashes, semicolons, and parentheses • sophisticated vocabulary • a fascination with psychology -- often manifested in a stream-of-consciousness narrative • experimentation with a non-linear narrative -- this means that Faulkner is filled with flashbacks and (seeming) tangents • stories that end, but don’t necessarily conclude

  5. Faulkner’s World

  6. Yoknapatawpha County • all but five of Faulkner’s works are set in his fictional world of Yoknapatawpha County • County Seat: Jefferson • originally inhabited by the Chickasaw Tribe; settled by Europeans in 1811 • bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River and on the south by the Yoknapatawpha River • Population: Whites, 6298; Negroes, 9313 • Significant families: Sartoris, Compson, Benbow, Bundren, Grierson, and Snopes

  7. “Ole Miss”

  8. Faulkner Quotes • “...my mother used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.” • “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” • “Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.” • “I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.” • “The basest of all things is to be afraid.” • “To live anywhere in the world and be against equality because of race or color is like being in Alaska and being against the snow.” • “Unless you are ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.” • “Words don’t ever fit what they are trying say at.” • “How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

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