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William Faulkner Short Stories

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Short tales by William Faulkner are a great way to get into his main works. Even though his novels are better recognized and read, many of the same characters and concepts appear in his short tales. Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi. Still, his family relocated to Oxford, Mississippi, which he renamed Jefferson in his writing and used as the location for nearly all of his books and short tales. Faulkner was born into a long, proud, and illustrious Mississippi family that included a governor, a Confederate Army colonel, and essential business pioneers. Colonel William Clark Falkner, his great-grandfather (the "u" was added to Faulkner's name by mistake when his first novel was published). If you are looking for  William Faulkner books made into movies , visit our website to know more.    During the early nineteenth century, he emigrated from Tennessee to Mississippi, and he kept the misspelling. In Faulkner's fiction, Colonel Falkne...
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Structure of The Sound and the Fury

When The Sound and the Fury originally came out, the most common critique was that the four portions were randomly and capriciously twisted. The decision by Faulkner to open the work with the Benjy section perplexed many critics and readers. Many critics thought this section was told through the eyes of a 33-year-old man, offered an insurmountable challenge to the reader. Some critics believed the novel should start with the final portion, while others believed Jason's piece should come first. Getting through the Benjy part without throwing up one's hands in despair is a difficult task. The novel's initial portion is unlike anything else that has been written before, and readers will be surprised by the hardship they will face. Faulkner intensifies to the extreme the "loneliness" of the novel as a genre, noted by Benjamin. Still, at the same time, he paradoxically brings into existence a  community  of readers that any new, solitary reader may join or turn to fo...
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