William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South

摘要

Almost 50 years after his death, William Faulkner continues to be one of America's most vital and paradoxical authors. Traditionally viewed as a "Southern writer" thanks to his lifelong association with Mississippi and the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha in which many of his novels were set, Faulkner was nonetheless deeply ambivalent about the region's traditions and values. During a period of exceptional creativity starting with the 1929 publication of The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner exposed and analysed themes such as family, racial politics, and above all the coming of modernity set against a backdrop of the southern states in turmoil.