"This book is an evocation of William Faulkner's life and work. From his birth in 1897 in Mississippi to his death sixty-five years later, Faulkner spent almost his entire life on this one small patch of land, the "significant soil" from which all his fiction grew. Jay Parini pai...

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1. Verfasser:	Parini, Jay 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Harper Perennial 2005
Schlagworte:	Faulkner, William <1897-1962> Faulkner, William > 1897-1962 Geschichte 1900-2000 Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	"This book is an evocation of William Faulkner's life and work. From his birth in 1897 in Mississippi to his death sixty-five years later, Faulkner spent almost his entire life on this one small patch of land, the "significant soil" from which all his fiction grew. Jay Parini paints an intimate picture of Faulkner's Mississippi world and shows how the artist transformed this raw material into Yoknapatawpha County, a place of pure imagination." "Between 1928 and 1942, during what Faulkner called his "one matchless time," a period of wild inspiration when characters and stories came to him mysteriously and in abundance, he published more than half a dozen masterpieces, including the novels The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Sanctuary; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!; The Wild Palms; Go Down, Moses; and The Hamlet. This is an astonishing achievement without equal in American literature."
Beschreibung:	XI, 492 S. Ill. - Ill.
ISBN:	0060935553 9780060935559