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American Literature

▪	William Faulkner


	William Faulkner

	William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 � July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi. Though his works are sometimes challenging or even difficult, he is regarded as one of America's most important fiction writers. In works of psychological drama and emotional depth, Faulkner was known for using long serpentine sentences and high, meticulously-chosen diction, in stark contrast to his long time rival Ernest Hemingway; his long sentences and ornate verbiage contrasted to Hemingway's short, 'minimalist' style. Some consider him to be the only true American Modernist prose fiction writer of the 1930s, following in experimental tradition European writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. His work is known for literary devices such as stream of consciousness, multiple narrations or points of view, and time-shifts within narrative. The Sound and the Fury is a well known novel by William Faulkner. Published in 1929, it was his fourth novel. The novel first received commercial success in 1931 when Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, a sensationalist story which Faulkner later admitted was written only for money, drew widespread attention to the author. Curiously, the book did sell well when Oprah Winfrey selected it for her book club in the summer of 2005, four decades after Faulkner's death. The novel takes place in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. It is written in a stream of consciousness style and is split into four sections: the first from the viewpoint of Benjy Compson, a mentally-retarded man; the second from the point of view of Quentin Compson, a depressed college student; the third from the point of view of their sardonic brother, Jason Compson; and the fourth section from a third person limited omniscient narrative point-of-view, centering on Dilsey, the Compson family's black servant, and expounding on religious faith.

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