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William Faulkner: Novels
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Faulkner wrote as if there were no literature written in English before him, no century and more of convention and literary tradition established before he put pen to paper. He recreated fiction anew and set the novel free to better serve the twentieth century through a powerful, discordant, and irresistible torrent of language that crashed through time, space, and experience to tell the story of modern mankind in ways both tragic and comic. Faulkner would have written the way he did whether or not James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, and the others had ever existed.
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NOTE: When you read of Grimm's unshakable enthusiasm for the war he missed, keep in mind that many of the American writers of Faulkner's generation had been deeply disillusioned by that war. Though Faulkner himself had tried to fight in it, he later wrote Soldiers' Pay, a novel that reflects the common disillusionment.
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Pylon (1935), one of Faulkner's weakest novels, is the story of a flying circus team. (1936) is an extremely complex novel; the title comes from the biblical cry of David ("My son, my son!"). This novel tells of a poor white from the Virginia hills who marries an aristocractic Mississippi woman, inadvertently launching a three-generation family cycle of violence, degeneracy, and mental retardation.
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....Love, or rather its absence, is the subject of much of Faulkner's poetry. Like his earlier sequences, Vision in Spring provides a continuing record of the poet's thinly disguised attempts to come to terms with his own sexuality, together with his ambivalence about the conflicting roles of artist and man of action. Not surprisingly, the people most closely associated with Faulkner's life as a poet, a life he preserved for certain occasions, are the women he loved. Besides retaining its position as a touchstone for certain kinds of emblematic scenes and metaphorical structures in his novels, verse played a special role in Faulkner's private life: he continued throughout his career to write, recite, and read poetry to these women.
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One of Faulkner's primary themes is the abuse of blacks by the Southern whites. Because his novels treat the decay and anguish of the South following the Civil War, they are rich in violent and sordid events. But they are grounded in a profound and compassionate humanism that celebrates the tragedy, energy, and humor of ordinary human life.
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"I've included here all of Faulkner's published fiction shorter than novel length that do not appear as a constituent part of a novel. Hence, for example, the short story "Go Down, Moses," which was first published in Collier's in 1941, will be listed here, whereas "Was," the short story that opens the novel Go Down, Moses and which was never published elsewhere, will not be listed." Contains: Commentary, Criticism, Works List Keywords: William Faulkner, short stories
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