• He later worked in Hollywood with Howard Hawks, a movie director who became a friend of him.
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The End of His Life
• Faulkner died July 6th, 1962 after suffering from a coronary occlusion (心肌梗塞 )
❖The Sound and the Fury 《喧嚣与骚动》
❖1930 As I lay Dying 《我弥留之际》
❖1931 Sanctuary 《圣殿》
❖1932 Light in August 《八月之光》
❖1936 Absalom, Absalom! 《押沙龙！押沙龙！ 》
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❖1942 Go Down, Moses 《去吧，摩西》 ❖1948: Intruder in the Dust 《坟墓的闯入者》 ❖1946:The Portable Faulkner《袖珍本福克纳选
5. O. Henry Short Story Prize.
•William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
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Fame:
• an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi
• regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century
• one of the leading American writers in the literary history of the United States.
• Up to his death he worked as a Writer-In-Residence at the University of Virginia in 1957
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Major Works:
❖Oxford, poems --- prose
❖1924 The Mirble Faun 《云石牧神》 ❖1925, first novel Soldier’s Pay 《军饷》
Considered one of the two greatest American novelists of his era with Ernest Hemingway One of the representatives of Southern renaissance in American literature
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If you want to have a better understanding of this outstanding
writer, please read his works.
Thank you !
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• a representative of the writers using stream of consciousness
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Major Themes of his Works
• 1. history and race • He explains the present by examining the
unfold the contradictions and
• He hoped to aspire to be likceonhfliisctsgoref athte- South in the turbulent times. grandfather, Colonel John Sartoris . great-grandfather: plantation owners, as well as soldiers, writer and politician; Colonel John Sartoris , created in Faulkner's works ,is on the basis of his great-grandfather.
past, by telling the stories of several generations of family to show how history changes life. • He was interested in the relationship between blacks and whites, especially concerned about the problems of the people who were of the mixed race of black and white, unacceptable to both races. • 2. Deterioration • 3. Conflicts between generations, classes, races, man and environment • 4. Horror, violence and the abnormal
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❖Trilogy of the Snopes family
The Hamlet (1940) 《村子》 The Town (1957) 《小镇》 The Mansion (1959)《大宅》
❖Short Story collection: The Unvanquished《没有被征服的人》(1938)
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Adulthood
• For twenty years he worked in Hollywood writing several screen plays like Today We Live (1933) and Land of the Pharaos (1955) and producing many novels and short stories.
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As a Young Man
• 1914 the first world war. • dreamed of becoming a pilot in the
army however was declined because of his height. • He later became a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, yet did not see any World War I wartime action.
William Faulkner
Sept 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962
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Family
• Born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897. Moved to Oxford, at the age of 4.
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Awards
1. One of three finalists for the first Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Award(1946).
2. Nobel Prize Winner(1949) 3. Pulitzer Winner twice: • A Fable(1955) • The Reivers(1963) 4. National Book Awards twice: • Collected Stories(1951) • A Fable(1955)