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1、DestructionandRenewal-------TheSoundandtheFuryWilliamFaulknerwasbornin1897inNewAlbany,Mississippi,toaprominentSouthernfamily.AnumberofhisancestorswereinvolvedintheMexian-AmericanWar,theCivilWar,andtheReconstruction,andwerepartofthelocalrailroadindust
2、ryandthepoliticalscene.Faulknershowedsignsofartistictalentfromayoungage,butbecameboredwithhisclassesandneverfinishedhighschool.FaulknergrewupinthetownofOxford,Mississippi,andeventuallyreturnedthereinhislateryearsandpurchasedhisfamousestate,RowanOak.O
3、xfordwasfaulkner’sinspirationforthefictionaltownofJefferson,Mississippi,anditssurroundingYoknapatawphaCountry.Theselocalesbecamethesettingforanumberofhisworks.Faulkner’s“Yoknapatawphanovels”includetheSoundandtheFury(1929),AsILayDying(1930),LightinAug
4、ust(1932),Absalom,Absalom!(1936),TheHamlet(1940),andGoDown,Moses(1942),andtheyfeapuresomeofthesamecharactersandlocations.FaulknerwasparticularlyinterestedinthedeclineoftheDeepSouthaftertheCivilWar.ManyofhisnovelsexplorethedeteriorationoftheSouthernar
5、istocracyafterthedestructionofitswealthandwayoflifeduringtheCivilWarandReconstruction.Faulkner’sreputationasoneofthegreatestnovelistsofthetwentiethcenturyislargelyduetohishighlyexperimentalstyle.Faulknerwasapioneerinliterarymodernism,dramaticallydive
6、rgingfromtheformsandstructurestraditionallyusedinnovelsbeforehistime.Faulkneroftenemploysstreamofconsciousnessnarrative,discardsanynotionofchronologicalorder,usesmultiplenarrators,shiftsbetweenthepresentandthepasttense,andtendstowardimpossiblylongand
7、complexsentences.Forhiseffort,AsILayDyingwasawardedtheNobelPrizeinLiteraturein1949.HediedinMississippiin1962.Firstpublishedin1929,theSoundandtheFuryisrecognizedasoneofthemostsuccessfullyinnovativeandexperimentalAmericannovelsofitstime,nottomentionone
8、ofthemostchallengingtointerpret.ThenovelconcernsthedownfalloftheCompsons,aprominentfamilyinJefferson,Mississippi,sincebeforetheCivilWar.Faulknerrepresentsthehumanexperiencebyportrayingeventsandimagessubjectively,throughseveraldifferentcharacters’sres
