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William Faulkner (1897–1962)

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Born in an old Mississippi family, William Faulkner made his home in Oxford, seat of the University of Mississippi. After the fifth grade he went to school only off and on-lived, read, and wrote much as he pleased. In 1918, refusing to enlist with the "Yankees," he joined the Canadian Air Force, mehr anzeigen and was transferred to the British Royal Air Force. After the war he studied a little at the University, did house painting, worked as a night superintendent at a power plant, went to New Orleans and became a friend of Sherwood Anderson, then to Europe and back home to Oxford. By this time he had written two novels. The Sound and the Fury followed in 1929. Financial success came with Sanctuary in 1931, which he assisted in filming. Faulkner 's novels are intense in their character portrayals of disintegrating Southern aristocrats, poor whites, and African Americans. A complex stream-of-consciousness rhetoric often involves Faulkner in lengthy sentences of anguished power. Most of his tales are set in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and are characterized by the use of many recurring characters from families of different social levels spanning more than a century. His best subjects are the old, dying South and the newer materialistic South. As I Lay Dying (1930), is a grotesquely tragicomic story about a family of poor southern whites. With Absalom, Absalom! (1936); the difficult parts of his famous short novel "The Bear" (published in Go Down, Moses, 1942); and the allegorical A Fable (1954), a non-Yoknapatawpha novel set in France during World War I; Faulkner returned to an innovative and difficult style that most readers have trouble with. Yet, interspersed among such works are collections of easily read stories originally published in popular magazines. There seems to be a growing sentiment among critics that the Snopes trilogy-The Hamlet (1940), The Town (1957), and The Mansion (1959)-for the most part an example of Faulkner's "moderate" style, could well be among his most important works. Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature "for his powerful and artistically independent contribution to the new American novel," but it would appear now that he also deserved to win that honor for his contribution to world literature. When reporting his death, the Boston Globe quoted Faulkner's having once told an interviewer: "Since man is mortal, the only immortality for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. That is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must some day pass." In addition to the Nobel Prize, Faulkner received the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1950, and in 1951 he was given the National Book Award for his Collected Stories Collected Stories. For his novel A Fable he received the National Book Award for the second time, as well as the Pulitzer Prize in 1955. The Reivers (1962) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. In 1957 and 1958, he was the University of Virginia's first writer-in-residence, and in January 1959 he accepted an appointment as consultant on contemporary literature to the Alderman Library of that university. Although Faulkner was not without honors in his lifetime and has received world recognition since then, it is surprising to learn that, when Malcolm Cowley edited The Portable Faulkner in 1946, he found that almost all of Faulkner's books were out of print. By arranging selections from the works to form a continuous chronicle, Cowley deserves much of the credit for making readers aware of the way in which Faulkner was creating a fictive world on a scale grander than that of any novelist since Balzac. William Faulkner died in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1962. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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(eng) This is not the same person as William Falkner (d. 1682), English theologian. Do not combine the two.

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Werke von William Faulkner

Schall und Wahn (1929) 17,168 Exemplare
Als ich im Sterben lag (1930) 14,693 Exemplare
Licht im August (1932) 9,172 Exemplare
Absalom, Absalom!. Roman (1936) 7,620 Exemplare
Die Freistatt (1931) 3,711 Exemplare
Go Down, Moses (1942) 3,297 Exemplare
Die Spitzbuben (1962) 2,278 Exemplare
Griff in den Staub (1948) 2,066 Exemplare
Die Unbesiegten (1938) — Autor — 1,945 Exemplare
Gesammelte Erzählungen (1950) 1,895 Exemplare
Das Dorf (1940) 1,807 Exemplare
Eine Legende (1954) 849 Exemplare
Das Haus (1959) — Autor — 712 Exemplare
Die Stadt (1957) — Autor — 709 Exemplare
Soldatenlohn. Roman. (1926) 691 Exemplare
Requiem für eine Nonne (1951) 639 Exemplare
Sartoris (1929) 616 Exemplare
Mosquitoes (1927) 539 Exemplare
Wendemarke (1935) 508 Exemplare
Flags in the Dust (1929) — Autor — 423 Exemplare
The Portable Faulkner (1946) — Autor — 275 Exemplare
A Rose for Emily {Tale Blazers} (2007) 169 Exemplare
The Wishing Tree (1927) 155 Exemplare
Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (1951) — Autor — 125 Exemplare
Briefe (1976) 97 Exemplare
These Thirteen (1931) 72 Exemplare
Der Strom. Roman (1948) 67 Exemplare
Brandstifter. Erzlg. (1979) 60 Exemplare
The Long, Hot Summer [1958 film] (2004) — Autor — 48 Exemplare
Vision in Spring (1984) 39 Exemplare
Smoke [short story] (1993) 37 Exemplare
Mayday (1974) 36 Exemplare
Vater Abraham (1983) 31 Exemplare
A Rose for Emily {book} (1996) 26 Exemplare
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Mitwirkender — 24 Exemplare
Brer Tiger and the Big Wind (1995) 23 Exemplare
Dry September 23 Exemplare
Faulkner : Oeuvres romanesques, tome 1 (1977) — Autor — 23 Exemplare
Essays, Speeches & Public Letters {1965} (1605) — Autor — 21 Exemplare
The Long Hot Summer (1958) 20 Exemplare
Uncle Willy and other stories (1958) 19 Exemplare
The Essential Faulkner (1967) — Autor — 16 Exemplare
A Green Bough (1933) 15 Exemplare
Una rosa per Emily (1997) — Autor — 15 Exemplare
Barn Burning {story} (1997) — Autor — 14 Exemplare
The William Faulkner Audio Collection (2003) — Autor — 14 Exemplare
Eine Rose für Emily (1930) 13 Exemplare
The Indispensable Faulkner (1946) 13 Exemplare
That Evening Sun {story} (1931) 12 Exemplare
All the Dead Pilots (2002) 12 Exemplare
Two Soldiers (1983) 11 Exemplare
Stories from six authors (1960) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
Barn Burning and Other Stories (1971) — Autor — 11 Exemplare
Miss Zilphia Gant (1980) 11 Exemplare
Noveller (1992) 11 Exemplare
The Best of Faulkner (1955) 10 Exemplare
The Marionettes (1975) 10 Exemplare
Rotes Laub. Erzählungen. (1972) — Autor — 10 Exemplare
Land of the Pharaohs [1955 film] (1955) — Screenwriter — 9 Exemplare
Meistererzählungen (1970) 9 Exemplare
Faulkner's Mgm Screenplays (1982) 9 Exemplare
Turnabout (1932) 8 Exemplare
Sanctuary / Light in August (1978) — Autor — 8 Exemplare
Lo! 8 Exemplare
Privacy (2003) 8 Exemplare
Schwarze Musik. Erzlg. (1994) 8 Exemplare
Obras completas (1959) 8 Exemplare
As I Lay Dying [2013 film] (2013) — Autor — 7 Exemplare
Le Caïd : Et autres nouvelles (2005) 7 Exemplare
Spotted Horses (1989) 7 Exemplare
Wash (2012) 7 Exemplare
Über William Faulkner (Nr.54) (1973) 7 Exemplare
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Obras Completas 1 (2004) 6 Exemplare
A FAULKNER PERSPECTIVE (1976) 6 Exemplare
Sieg im Gebirge. Erzählungen. (2002) 6 Exemplare
Karhu ja muita novelleja (1969) 6 Exemplare
William Faulkner Reads (1998) 6 Exemplare
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Faulkner at Nagano (1956) 5 Exemplare
Rose for Emily and Wash (1984) — Autor — 5 Exemplare
Obras escogidas 5 Exemplare
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romanzi (1995) 5 Exemplare
Idyll In The Desert (1985) 5 Exemplare
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Hell Creek Crossing 4 Exemplare
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A Justice 4 Exemplare
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Yenilmeyenler (2018) 3 Exemplare
Contes 3 Exemplare
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Strange Love (1963) 3 Exemplare
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2 (2004) 3 Exemplare
Mule in the Yard 3 Exemplare
Honor 3 Exemplare
A Courtship 3 Exemplare
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Elly 3 Exemplare
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Foglie rosse e altri racconti (2014) 2 Exemplare
Faulkner 2 Exemplare
Opere scelte (2004) 2 Exemplare
Mississippi (2000) 2 Exemplare
Obras completas . VI (2004) 2 Exemplare
Hair (1968) 2 Exemplare
The Hill 2 Exemplare
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Tomorrow 2 Exemplare
Divorce in Naples 2 Exemplare
Mistral 2 Exemplare
The Leg 2 Exemplare
There Was a Queen 2 Exemplare
Salmagundi 2 Exemplare
Golden Land 2 Exemplare
Ensayos Y Discursos (2012) 2 Exemplare
Faulkner's County: Tales of Yoknapatawpha County (1955) — Autor — 2 Exemplare
Crevasse 2 Exemplare
A Aldeia (2015) 2 Exemplare
Koy (2018) 2 Exemplare
The Tall Men 2 Exemplare
Stallion Road: A Screenplay (1989) 2 Exemplare
A Mansão (Portuguese Edition) (2016) 2 Exemplare
Fox Hunt 2 Exemplare
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Victory 2 Exemplare
Carcassonne — Autor — 2 Exemplare
Beyond 2 Exemplare
Death Drag 2 Exemplare
Shall Not Perish 2 Exemplare
Artist at Home 2 Exemplare
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"Shall Not Perish" 1 Exemplar
Konjicki gambit 1 Exemplar
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Dilek Agaci (2016) 1 Exemplar
Obras Completas VI 1 Exemplar
“The Tall Men” 1 Exemplar
"A Bear Hunt" 1 Exemplar
"Hair" 1 Exemplar
Snobovi 1 Exemplar
Descends, Moise 1 Exemplar
Obras escogidas I 1 Exemplar
Copacul Dorintelor 1 Exemplar
DUMAN 1 Exemplar
TYMI 1 Exemplar
Lekeli Gunler 1 Exemplar
O Aksam Gunesi 1 Exemplar
Obras Completas II 1 Exemplar
HL' Ialbero dei desideri (1998) 1 Exemplar
Light in August pb 1 Exemplar
Kogda ya umirala (2017) 1 Exemplar
Humphrey Bogart Classics: Volume 2 — Writer — 1 Exemplar
Old Man [1997 TV movie] (1997) — Autor — 1 Exemplar
Welcome to USA (2012) 1 Exemplar
Elmer (1987) 1 Exemplar
Monk [short story] 1 Exemplar
Amerikaanse verhalen — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
El villorrio (2016) 1 Exemplar
Larmen Og Vreden 1 Exemplar
A Cosmos of My Own 1 Exemplar
Erzählungen II 1 Exemplar
The Evening Sun 1 Exemplar
The Waifs 1 Exemplar
Histoires diverses (1967) 1 Exemplar
A Point of Law 1 Exemplar
Werkausgabe 28 Briefe (1982) 1 Exemplar
Opere 1 Exemplar
The Hound 1 Exemplar
Delta Autumn 1 Exemplar
The Road to Glory 1 Exemplar
Country Lawyer 1 Exemplar
Mektuplar (2014) 1 Exemplar
البعوض 1 Exemplar
Zstąp, Mojżeszu 1 Exemplar
2003 1 Exemplar
Road to Glory, The (1964) 1 Exemplar
New Orleansin tarinoita (2016) 1 Exemplar
TRE RÖVARE 1 Exemplar
Duman 1 Exemplar
Byn roman 1 Exemplar
Fumo 1 Exemplar
Zascianek 1 Exemplar
Wielki las (1997) 1 Exemplar
Rezydencja (1983) 1 Exemplar
Rose of Lebanon 1 Exemplar
Cavalli pezzati (1997) 1 Exemplar
12 סיפורים (2018) 1 Exemplar
Le bruit et la fureur tome I (1973) 1 Exemplar
Aşk ve Ölüm 1 Exemplar
Extrait - L'Intrus 1 Exemplar

Zugehörige Werke

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50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Mitwirkender — 1,242 Exemplare
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben915 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Mitwirkender — 743 Exemplare
The Dark Descent (1987) — Mitwirkender — 719 Exemplare
Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Mitwirkender — 675 Exemplare
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (1944) — Mitwirkender — 637 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992) — Mitwirkender — 536 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Mitwirkender — 510 Exemplare
Great American Short Stories (1957) — Mitwirkender — 493 Exemplare
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Mitwirkender — 461 Exemplare
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Mitwirkender — 457 Exemplare
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) — Mitwirkender — 452 Exemplare
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Mitwirkender — 430 Exemplare
Best Short Stories of the Modern Age (1962) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben333 Exemplare
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Mitwirkender — 297 Exemplare
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Mitwirkender — 291 Exemplare
Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time (1942) — Mitwirkender — 286 Exemplare
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Mitwirkender — 282 Exemplare
Six Great Modern Short Novels (1954) — Mitwirkender — 276 Exemplare
The Big Sleep [1946 film] (1946) — Screenwriter — 267 Exemplare
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Mitwirkender — 267 Exemplare
Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981) — Mitwirkender — 196 Exemplare
To Have and Have Not [1944 film] (1944) — Writer, einige Ausgaben190 Exemplare
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (1969) — Mitwirkender — 188 Exemplare
This Is My Best (1942) — Mitwirkender — 186 Exemplare
Nobel Prize Library: Faulkner, O'Neill, Steinbeck (1971) — Autor — 185 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996) — Mitwirkender — 176 Exemplare
Sixteen Short Novels (1985) — Mitwirkender — 174 Exemplare
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Mitwirkender — 174 Exemplare
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Mitwirkender — 147 Exemplare
The Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories (1943) — Mitwirkender — 145 Exemplare
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984) — Mitwirkender — 141 Exemplare
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Mitwirkender — 137 Exemplare
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury (1954) — Mitwirkender — 137 Exemplare
The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (1977) — Mitwirkender — 121 Exemplare
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Mitwirkender — 121 Exemplare
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Mitwirkender — 111 Exemplare
Great Modern Reading (1943) — Mitwirkender — 106 Exemplare
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Mitwirkender — 98 Exemplare
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Mitwirkender — 98 Exemplare
American Short Stories (1976) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben95 Exemplare
More Stories to Remember, Volume II (1958) — Mitwirkender — 94 Exemplare
A Treasury of Civil War Stories (1985) — Mitwirkender — 76 Exemplare
Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners (1959) — Mitwirkender — 76 Exemplare
Ten Modern Masters: An Anthology of the Short Story (1953) — Mitwirkender — 74 Exemplare
Great American Mystery Stories of the 20th Century (1989) — Mitwirkender — 73 Exemplare
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Mitwirkender — 71 Exemplare
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Mitwirkender — 68 Exemplare
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Mitwirkender — 68 Exemplare
The Medusa in the Shield (1990) — Mitwirkender — 63 Exemplare
Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge (1985) — Mitwirkender — 60 Exemplare
Gunga Din [1939 film] (1939) — Mitwirkender — 59 Exemplare
65 Great Tales of Horror (1981) — Mitwirkender — 59 Exemplare
More Stories to Remember, Volumes I & II (1958) — Mitwirkender — 57 Exemplare
The Penguin Classic Crime Omnibus (1984) — Mitwirkender — 54 Exemplare
The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1981) — Mitwirkender — 52 Exemplare
Art of Fiction (1967) — Mitwirkender — 51 Exemplare
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Mitwirkender — 51 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (1994) — Mitwirkender — 50 Exemplare
Eleven Modern Short Novels (1970) — Mitwirkender — 49 Exemplare
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Mitwirkender — 46 Exemplare
The Experience of the American Woman (1978) — Mitwirkender — 46 Exemplare
The Random House Book of Sports Stories (1990) — Mitwirkender — 45 Exemplare
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (1945) — Mitwirkender — 45 Exemplare
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Mitwirkender — 42 Exemplare
Luzifer lässt grüssen : teufl. Geschichten. (1971) — Mitwirkender — 41 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of Historical Stories (1994) — Mitwirkender — 40 Exemplare
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Mitwirkender — 39 Exemplare
Southern Dogs and Their People (2000) — Mitwirkender — 39 Exemplare
Ellery Queen's Book of Mystery Stories by 25 Famous Writers (1952) — Mitwirkender — 36 Exemplare
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Mitwirkender — 36 Exemplare
Tales of Terror (1943) — Mitwirkender — 34 Exemplare
The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1993) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1996 (1996) — Mitwirkender — 31 Exemplare
50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 (1939) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare
Short Stories of the Sea (1984) — Mitwirkender — 27 Exemplare
American short stories, 1820 to the present (1952) — Mitwirkender — 26 Exemplare
Ten Modern Short Novels (1958) — Mitwirkender — 26 Exemplare
Great Short Stories of the World (1965) — Mitwirkender — 25 Exemplare
Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories (1998) — Mitwirkender — 24 Exemplare
Tales of Dungeons and Dragons (1986) — Mitwirkender — 23 Exemplare
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Mitwirkender — 22 Exemplare
The Best Horror Stories (1977) — Mitwirkender; Mitwirkender — 22 Exemplare
A Treasury of Sea Stories (1948) — Mitwirkender — 20 Exemplare
Short Stories II (1961) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare
Nine Short Novels (1952) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
The Best American Short Stories 1966 (1966) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare
Air Force [1943 film] (1943) — Screenwriter — 15 Exemplare
The Tarnished Angels [1957 film] (1957) — Original book — 15 Exemplare
All verdens fortellere (1990) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben15 Exemplare
Modern American Short Stories (1945) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare
Nobel Writers on Writing (2000) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Mississippi Writers: An Anthology (1991) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
The night before Chancellorsville, and other Civil War stories (1957) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
The Story Pocket Book (1944) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
31 Stories (1960) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Loaded for Bear: A Treasury of Great Hunting Stories (1990) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
The World of Law, Volume I : The Law in Literature (1960) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
The Best American Short Stories 1943 (1943) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
Favourite Scary Stories from Graveside Al (1996) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
The best of the Best American short stories, 1915-1950 (1975) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
A New Southern Harvest (1957) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
Writer to Writer: Readings on the Craft of Writing (1966) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
Fiction Goes to Court (1954) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
More Stories to Remember, Volume IV (1958) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
Time to Be Young: Great Stories of the Growing Years (1945) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Modern American Short Stories (1941) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
William Faulkner's Barn Burning [1980 TV movie] (1985) — Original play — 7 Exemplare
Modern American Short Stories (1987) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Erzähler des S. Fischer Verlages 1886-1978 (2018) — Autor — 7 Exemplare
The Story Survey (1953) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
Concerning a Woman of Sin and Other Stories of Holllywood (1960) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Strange Desires (1954) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Breakdown and Other Thrillers — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Huivering wekken : 26 onthutsende verhalen (1982) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Twenty-Three Modern Stories (1963) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Modern Short Stories — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
American Short Stories (1978) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Daughters of Eve (1956) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Best Crime Stories — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
American Short Stories (Oxford Literature Resources) (1992) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Strange Barriers (1955) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
A Magnum of Mysteries (1963) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
El cuento literario (2008) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1934 (1934) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Sanctuary [1961 film] (1961) — Original novel — 1 Exemplar
Modern American short stories (1963) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
15 Great Stories of Today (1946) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The Avon Annual 1945: 18 Great Modern Stories (1945) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The Narrative Impulse: Short Stories for Analysis (1963) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Modern Short Stories — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The PL book of modern American short stories (1945) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The Spectacle of Sport: Selected from Sports Illustrated (1957) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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Wissenswertes

Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Faulkner, William
Rechtmäßiger Name
Faulkner, William Cuthbert
Andere Namen
Falkner, William Cuthbert ( birth until ~19 18)
Geburtstag
1897-09-25
Todestag
1962-07-06
Begräbnisort
St. Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi, USA
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
USA
Geburtsort
New Albany, Mississippi, USA
Sterbeort
Byhalia, Mississippi, USA
Todesursache
suffered a serious injury in a fall from his horse, which led to thrombosis
Wohnorte
Oxford, Mississippi, USA
Ausbildung
University of Mississippi
Berufe
novelist
short story writer
poet
literary critic
essayist
screenwriter (Zeige alle 14)
playwright
bank clerk
postmaster
roof painter
carpenter
deckhand
coal shoveler
pilot
Beziehungen
Faulkner, John (brother)
Falkner, Murry C. (brother)
Faulkner, Jim (nephew)
Falkner, William Clark (great-grandfather)
Percy, William Alexander (friend)
Anderson, Sherwood (friend) (Zeige alle 9)
West, Nathanael (friend)
Franklin, Malcolm A. (stepson)
Wells, Dean Faulkner (niece)
Organisationen
British Armed Forces
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
University of Mississippi (postmaster)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (screenwriter)
Warner Brothers (screenwriter) (Zeige alle 8)
University of Virginia (writer-in-residence)
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Preise und Auszeichnungen
Nobelpreis (Literatur, 1949)
Writer-in-Residence ( [1957, 1958])
Kurzbiographie
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.

Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919 and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner's renown reached its peak upon the publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner and his 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), each won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) appears on similar lists.
Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
This is not the same person as William Falkner (d. 1682), English theologian. Do not combine the two.

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The Snopes Trilogy, Volume III, The Mansion in Club Read 2023 (September 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy, Volume II, The Town in Club Read 2023 (August 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy Group Read: The Hamlet in Club Read 2023 (Juli 2023)
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1931 schrieb der spätere Nobelpreisträger diesen Roman. Es geht um Verbrechen und um Rassismus. Die junge Temple kommt mit ihrem Freund auf eine abgelegene Farm, auf der illegal Schnaps gebrannt wird. Sie wird vergewaltigt und tut sich dann aber mit ihrem Peiniger zusammen, der einen Mord begeht. Angeklagt wird ein unschuldiger Schwarzer.
Ich fand das Buch ganz extrem schwer zu lesen. Hätte ich nicht gewusst, worum es geht, hätte ich nichts verstanden.
Im Grunde ist es wie „Wer die Nachtigall stört“, aber nicht freundlich, sondern schonungslos. Der weiße Anwalt richtet hier nichts aus.… (mehr)
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Licht im August spielt wie die meisten Romane Faulkners im fiktiven Yoknapatawpha County im Bundesstaat Mississippi, in und um die Kleinstadt Jefferson. Der Höhepunkt der Handlung spielt im August, etwa in dem Jahr, in dem der Roman verfasst wurde.

Der Roman beschreibt die Schicksale mehrerer Personen, die teilweise verwoben sind und unterschiedliche Handlungsstränge im Roman bilden. Lena Grove macht sich, ledig und schwanger, von Alabama aus auf die Suche nach dem Vater ihres ungeborenen Kindes, Lucas Burch. Wegen der Namensähnlichkeit trifft sie Byron Bunch, der weiß, dass sich Burch jetzt Joe Brown nennt. Er verschweigt dies aber, weil er sich in Lena Grove verliebt hat. Eine weitere Hauptfigur ist der ehemalige Pastor Gail Hightower, der sein Amt aufgeben musste, nachdem seine Frau auf dubiose Weise ums Leben gekommen war. Er lebt zurückgezogen in Jefferson, wird jedoch häufig von Bunch besucht. Bunch sucht um Verständnis für sein Handeln, Hightower missbilligt es aber.… (mehr)
 
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