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William Faulkner's life and works

''That Evening sun" by William Faulkner

Notable awards

Notable works

  • Name: William Cuthbert Falkner
  • Born: September 25, 1897 New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.
  • Died: July 6, 1962 Byhalia, Mississippi, U.S.
  • Nobel Prize in Literature 1949
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1955, 1963

Characters

  • The Sound and the Fury
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Light in August
  • Absalom, Absalom!
  • A Rose for Emily
  • Nancy
  • Jesus (Jubah)
  • Mr. Compson
  • Ms. Compson
  • Quentin
  • Caddy
  • Jason
  • Dilsey
  • Mr. Stovall
  • Dislocated narrative
  • Biblical imagery and allusion
  • Loose ends

That Evening Sun

  • Why is Nancy described as "not herself"?

References

  • http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
  • http://timlepczyk.com/2010/11/09/that-evening-sun-william-faulkner-point-of-view.html
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Evening_Sun
  • http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Faulkner-101-Toni-Morrison-and-William-Faulkner
  • http://voices.yahoo.com/biblical-imagery-allusions-faulkners-evening-154024.html?cat=38
  • 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, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for some trips to Europe and Asia, and a few brief stays in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, he worked on his novels and short stories on a farm in Oxford.
  • The title is taken from the song Saint Louis Blues, originally composed by W.C. Handy, but popularized by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong in 1927.
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