William Faulkner
American novelist and short-story writer, a major figure in Southern literature known for experimental narrative techniques and the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Notable works include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!. Awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and two Pulitzer Prizes.
Books
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1. The Old Man
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2. Big Woods
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3. Шум и ярость
Роман рассказывает о моральном и социальном распаде южной семьи через фрагментарные, сдвинутые по времени сознания её членов. Первая часть — поток сознания умственно отсталого Бенджи, затем одержимый чувством утраты и времени Квентин, жестокий и циничный Джейсон и, наконец, более объективный взгляд на происходящее с точки зрения заботливой служанки Дилси; через эти голоса проходят воспоминания о сестре Кэдди, разочарование, расовые и классовые конфликты. Текст исследует относительность времени, разрушение семейных ценностей и трагедию южной аристократии.
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4. Le Palme Selvagge
L'opera alterna due racconti paralleli: uno segue una travolgente e autodistruttiva storia d'amore tra un uomo e una donna sposata, che li trascina nella fuga, nel disfacimento morale e nella rovina legale; l'altro narra le vicende di un detenuto coinvolto nei soccorsi durante una grande inondazione fluviale, una prova di resistenza, dovere e compassione. Il contrasto fra passione impulsiva e stoica sopravvivenza mette in luce temi di libertà, colpa, responsabilità e le contraddizioni del Sud degli Stati Uniti, in uno stile al tempo stesso potente, frammentario e profondamente empatico.
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5. Santuario
A privileged young woman from a small Southern town is violently thrust into a nightmarish bootlegging underworld when a sadistic criminal abducts and exploits her, drawing an idealistic lawyer and other townspeople into a web of crime, rape, betrayal, and murder that lays bare social hypocrisy, corruption, and moral collapse in a bleak Southern Gothic portrait.
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6. Luce D'agosto
Set in a small Mississippi county, the novel interweaves the journeys of Lena Grove, a persistent pregnant young woman searching for the child’s father, and Joe Christmas, a troubled biracial drifter whose uncertain racial identity and history of abandonment drive him into isolation and violence. Alongside a disgraced preacher who observes the town’s moral unraveling and a northern woman whose compassion for the outsider ends tragically, the story probes race, faith, fate, and the corrosive power of rumor and prejudice, building to a grim confrontation that lays bare the community’s hypocrisies.
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7. Assalonne, Assalonne!
A baroque, tragic chronicle of an ambitious outsider who builds a plantation dynasty in the antebellum South and whose obsessive design—rooted in pride, secrecy and racial violence—ultimately destroys his family and reputation; the story is pieced together by multiple, unreliable narrators whose competing recollections and moral blindness expose the region’s tangled legacy of slavery, honor, and the irretrievability of the past.
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8. L'urlo E Il Furore
A fragmented, stream-of-consciousness portrait of a Southern family's decline told through shifting perspectives—from a nonverbal, childlike mind whose perception collapses time, to a tormented son obsessed with honor and memory, to a bitter, calculating sibling driven by greed—culminating in an outsider's weary yet steadfast view that endures amid chaos. Through nonlinear chronology, interior monologue, and stark scenes of racial and familial decay, the narrative traces how pride, loss, and cruelty erode both individuals and a fading social order. It is a challenging, lyrical exploration of trauma, memory, and the passage of time.
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9. Spotted Horses And Other Stories
A compact collection of interrelated short stories set in the American South, offering vivid, often unsettling portraits of rural life, pride, greed, and human folly; the tales follow a cast of recurring characters and local types as they confront poverty, changing social order, desire, and violence, rendered in a dense, lyrical prose that mixes dark humor with moral ambiguity and a sharp eye for the region’s customs and contradictions.