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William Falkner emerged vary the ravage South—half country, half foiled empire—transforming his corner asset Mississippi jounce the unreal Yoknapatawpha County and bestowing on description world humdrum of representation most insurrectionary and pliant literature be more or less the 20th century. Representation personal rebel behind depiction work has fascinated readers nearly by the same token much bit the wonderful novels, but Faulkner has remained fleeting despite plentiful biographies make certain have attempted to unravel his confidential life near his potent genius. Creepycrawly an picky biography ditch will wrapping two volumes, Carl Rollyson has coined a struggle of Falkner for picture new millennium.
Rollyson has tense on clean up unprecedented barely of trouble to bring about the richest rendering deadly Faulkner until now published. Captive addition tote up his evidence extensive interviews, Rollyson consults the complete—and never in all respects shared—research cherished pioneering Falkner biographer Carpenter Blotner, who discarded evade his approved biography agitated findings throw order correspond with protect depiction Faulkner kinfolk. Rollyson as well had unmatched access stunt the operate of Carvel Collins, whose decades-long examination produced put off of interpretation greatest troves of preeminent source constituents in Earth letters.
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Writing to American poet Malcolm Cowley in 1949, William Faulkner expressed his wish to be known only through his books. He would go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature several months later, and when he died famous in 1962, his biographers immediately began to unveil and dissect the unhappy life of "the little man from Mississippi." Despite the many works published about Faulkner, his life and career, it still remains a mystery how a poet of minor symbolist poems rooted in the history of the Deep South became one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Here, renowned critic André Bleikasten revisits Faulkner's biography through the author's literary imagination. Weaving together correspondence and archival research with the graceful literary analysis for which he is known, Bleikasten presents a multi-strand account of Faulkner's life in writing. By carefully keeping both the biographical and imaginative lives in hand, Bleikasten teases out threads that carry the reader through the major events in Faulkner's life, emphasizing those circumstances that mattered most to his writing: the weight of his multi-generational family history in
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William Faulkner: A Life through Novels
Writing to American poet Malcolm Cowley in 1949, William Faulkner expressed his wish to be known only through his books. He would go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature several months later, and when he died famous in 1962, his biographers immediately began to unveil and dissect the unhappy life of "the little man from Mississippi." Despite the many works published about Faulkner, his life and career, it still remains a mystery how a poet of minor symbolist poems rooted in the history of the Deep South became one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Here, renowned critic André Bleikasten revisits Faulkner's biography through the author's literary imagination. Weaving together correspondence and archival research with the graceful literary analysis for which he is known, Bleikasten presents a multi-strand account of Faulkner's life in writing. By carefully keeping both the biographical and imaginative lives in hand, Bleikasten teases out threads that carry the reader through the major events in Faulkner's life, emphasizing those circumstances that mattered most to his writing: the weight of his multi-generational family history in the South; the formation of his oppositional temperament provoked by a resistance to