威廉·福克纳
• 福克纳笔下的剧情浸染着人物的复杂心理变化,细腻的感情描写 穿插其中。他作品最大的外在特点是绵延婉转、结构极为繁复的 长句子和反复斟酌推敲后选取的精巧词汇。他一生多产,令很多 美国作家羡艳不已,不过也有很多人对其持批评态度。他和风格 简洁明了、干脆利落的海明威更是两个极端。一般认为他是1930 年代唯一一位真正意义上的美国现代主义作家,与欧洲文学试验 者乔伊斯、伍尔芙、普鲁斯特等人遥相呼应,大量运用意识流、 多角度叙述和陈述中时间推移等富有创新性的文学手法。
• 支配这个家族的是福克纳的曾祖父威廉·克拉 科·福克纳老上校。他既是种植园主,又是军人、 作家、政治家。
• Dominate the this family is the old Colonel Faulkner's great-grandfather William Krakow Faulkner. He is both a planter, soldier, writer, statesman.
• 最有代表性的作品是《喧哗与骚动》。
• The most representative works are "The Sound and the Fury".
• At first he follow the British poet Algernon Swinburne from the French Symbolism poet. His first works are the poems "The Marble Faun" (1924). Publication of the novel "The Soldier's reward" (1926), Faulkner found that this form more suitable for them, and later he motivate yourself proficient novel this form, write a self-contained many of the works to create a York County of Napa Ta France.
• 《Flags in the Dust》(1973)
• 福克纳深受家庭传统和南方风土人情的影响。他 的、矛盾等敏感问题,生动描 绘出惟妙惟肖的南方人形象。
• family traditions and Southern customs. Southerners unique sense of humor, his work depth characterization of the status, contradictions, and other sensitive issues, and vividly depicts a image of Southerners..
• Lafayette County, Mississippi, geography, culture, history and people, fictitious stamp-sized hometown native "Yoknapatawpha County, Faulkner most of the work background
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• 《士兵的报酬》 (Soldiers' Pay)(1926) • 《蚊群》(Mosquitoes)(1927) • 《萨托里斯》(Sartoris)(1929) • 《喧哗与骚动》(The Sound and the Fury)(1929) • 《我弥留之际》(As I Lay Dying)(1930) • 《圣殿》(Sanctuary)(1931) • 《八月之光》(Light in August)(1932) • 《塔门》(Pylon)(1935) • 《押沙龙,押沙龙! 》(Absalom, Absalom!)(1936) • 《不败者》(The Unvanquished)(1938) • 《野棕榈》(If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man))
• 1930年代中,为了赚钱他出版了低俗小说类型的 《圣殿》(Sanctuary)。其中邪恶、堕落腐败的 主题(伴随浓厚的南方哥特风格)在今日仍然影 响着通俗文学。此书续作《修女安魂曲》是他唯 一出版的戏剧
• In the 1930s, in order to make money he published a Pulp Fiction type of "temple" (of Sanctuary). Which evil, degenerate corruption theme (along with a strong southern Gothic style) still affecting the popular literature today. The book sequel "Sister Requiem" is his only published play
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• 故事发生在20世纪初年、约克纳帕塔法县杰斐逊镇一个姓康普生的南方世家。 这个家族曾经显赫一时,祖上出过州长和将军,广有田地,黑奴成群。但是 南北战争之后,家族渐趋没落,只余下一幢破败的家宅以及一户黑人佣人, 连长子上大学、女儿办婚宴也要卖了最后的田地才能应付。一家之长康普生 先生只知道缅怀过去,发表空论,成天借酒浇愁,致使开办的律师事务所一 败涂地,最后酒精中毒而死。康普生太太念念不忘自己的南方闺秀身份,她 精神抑郁、无病呻吟、自私乖僻,极度地以自我为中心。长子昆丁生性懦弱、 多愁善感,怀着对妹妹的病态之爱,19岁时在哈佛大学投河自尽。女儿凯蒂 富于生命力,性格开放,由于未婚先孕,便与一位银行家结婚以掩人耳目, 被丈夫发觉后撵回娘家,却又不为思想保守的家庭所容,只好将私生女小昆 丁寄养在父母家里,漂泊异乡以出卖色相为生。次子杰生没有享受到分毫遗 产,中学毕业后便做了办事员,进银行工作的美梦也因姐姐的离婚丑闻而归 于破灭,他自私自利,冷酷无情,爱钱如命,用种种手段敲诈凯蒂,虐待小 昆丁,侵吞凯蒂寄给小昆丁的生活费。小儿子班吉纯洁善良,可惜是个白痴, 33岁却只有一个3岁孩子的智力水平,因为试图强奸邻居女孩,被做了阉割手 术。小昆丁在冷漠无望的环境中长大,17岁时偷了舅舅杰生的不义之财,跟 一个劣迹斑斑的流浪艺人私奔。家庭中唯一的亮色来自黑人女佣迪尔西,她 是康普生太太出嫁时带过来的家奴,多年来一直忠心耿耿,不仅担负起家务 重任,还一直保护着班吉、凯蒂、小昆丁等人免受杰生的伤害。
(1939)
• 《村子》(The Hamlet)(1940) • 《去吧,摩西》(Go Down, Moses)(1942) • 《闯入坟墓的人》(Intruder in the Dust)(1948) • 《修女安魂曲》(Requiem for a Nun)(1951) • 《寓言》(A Fable )(1954) • 《镇》(The Town)(1957) • 《大宅》(The Mansion)(1959) • 《掠夺者》(The Reivers)(1962)
• He came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the University of Mississippi
William Faulkner's novels
American Writer Born: Sept. 25, 1897 Died: July 6, 1962 Awards and honors: Nobel Prize for literature, written a total of 19 novels and nearly one hundred short stories, 15 Minister of papers and the vast majority of short stories are in Yoknapatawpha County, called Yoknapatawpha descent. The context is the story of several generations of several families of this county Jefferson town and its suburbs belong to different social classes
characteristics
• Height five feet, six inches tall • Hobbies drinking Carrying the pipe • Strong will • The southerners unique sense of humor • Early writing career, an editor was wrong to
• William Faulkner story disseminated character of the complex psychological changes, viewing the delicate feelings of depiction. The external characteristics of his work is stretching it mildly, extremely complicated structure of long sentences and sophisticated vocabulary appropriate, select scrutiny after repeated. His life is prolific, so many American writers the Xian Yan endless, but also many of its critics. He and his style clear and concise, crisp Hemingway are two extremes. Is generally believed that he echoes the 1930s, only a true sense of the modern American writers, and European literature test by Joyce, Woolf, Proust, etc., make extensive use of stream of consciousness, multi-angle descriptions and representations innovative literary techniques such as the passage of time.