Resultado da Busca
William Faulkner, the renowned American author, was born on September 25, 1897, in Mississippi. His father, Murry Cuthbert Falkner, was a businessman, and his mother, Maud Butler, was a homemaker. After his birth, the family relocated to Ripley, Mississippi, where his father took over his grandfather’s business.
Faulkner had married Estelle Oldham, his childhood sweetheart, in 1929, and they lived together in Oxford until his death. He was a quiet, dashing, courteous man, mustachioed and sharp-eyed. He constantly refused the role of celebrity: he permitted no prying into his private life and rarely granted interviews.
William Faulkner, né William Cuthbert Falkner le 25 septembre 1897 à New Albany, dans l'État du Mississippi, et mort le 6 juillet 1962 (à 64 ans) à Byhalia dans le même État, est un romancier et nouvelliste américain. Publié à partir des années 1920, il reçoit le prix Nobel de littérature en 1949, alors qu'il est encore ...
When Allen Tate described the generation of writers that produced the Southern Renaissance as having a “double focus, a looking two ways,” he doubtless was including William Faulkner. That dual perspective—backward to the antebellum South and the Civil War, forward to the modernist revolution in Western thought and the arts—invested Faulkner’s fiction with a perpetual […]
Michael Millgate. William Faulkner - Nobel Prize, Southern Gothic, Novels: The novel The Wild Palms (1939) was again technically adventurous, with two distinct yet thematically counterpointed narratives alternating, chapter by chapter, throughout. But Faulkner was beginning to return to the Yoknapatawpha County material he had first imagined in ...
William Faulkner Biography. William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, but his family soon moved to Oxford, Mississippi. Almost all of his novels take place in and around Oxford, which he renames Jefferson, Mississippi. Even though Faulkner is a contemporary American author, he is already considered to be one of the world's greatest ...
7 de ago. de 2023 · This overview of the biography and fiction of William Faulkner from the Famous Authors series introduces the major themes of Faulkner’s poems, plays, short stories, and novels. The film contextualizes life in the American south in the first half of the 20th century; Faulkner’s southern upbringing, family history, and race relations in the wake of the Civil War were a major influence on his ...
