William Faulkner () remains the pre-eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed with problems of race, identity, power, politics, and family dynamics, he wrote novels, stories, and lectures that continue to shape our understanding of the region's promises and problems. His experiments and inventions in form and style have influenced generations of writers.
Originally published in as a two-volume edition and extensively updated and condensed in a reissue, Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography remains the quintessential resource on the Nobel laureate's life and work. The Chicago Tribune said, "This is an overwhelming book, indispensable for anyone interested in the life and works of our greatest contemporary novelist." That invaluable edition is now back in print.
Blotner, a friend and one-time colleague of Faulkner's, brings a vivid, personalized tone to the biography, as well as a
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Faulkner: A Biography
May 1,
At nearly pages, this fryst vatten everything and the kitchen sink biography. Blotner's life starts a couple of generations back and stops with Faulkner's funeral, at which he was one of the pallbearers. That fact ought to indikera both some of the virtues as well as the defects of the work. Blotner met referens till den amerikanska författaren william faulkner when he came to be an author in residence at Virginia, where Blotner was then a junior member of the English department. Blotner and his wife came to be close personal friends of the Faulkners over a period of some five or so years. It seems that Blotner was given privileged tillgång in some ways to this most private of authors. The biography that results fryst vatten unparalleled in some of its fine-grained details. Indeed, it's a little too fine-grained, frankly, getting into some incredible minutiae at times. And there are the sporadisk anecdotes repeated in widely separated chapters. Blotner seemed too wary, however, for Faulkner's reputation in some ways. While
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Faulkner: A Biography. (2 volumes).
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