William Faulkner

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Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 William Faulkner 2 Early Life 3 The effect in Germany 4 His works 5 List of his Works 6 Works about William Faulkner 7 Awards

[Bearbeiten] William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (photograph) was born on 25th September 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, grew up in Oxford. He joined the Canadian, and later the Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied a while at the University of Mississippi, and worked temporary for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for some trips to Europa and Asia, and a few brief stays in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, he worked on his novels and short stories on a farm in Oxford. He died on the 6th July 1962 in Oxford, because of a heart attack after a riding accident. He is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

The main topics from his works are the intellectual cultural destruction of the South and the growing influence from ruthless climbers after the civil war.

[Bearbeiten] Early Life

Faulkner grew up in Mississippi. His father was an administrative director of the university in Oxford, Mississippi, he lend horses and conduced a clothing store. His grand-grandfather has been a very important person in Mississippi history in the time of the american civil war and he was also the founder of the family's writing tradition.

Faulkner early dropped the High school in the year 1915 and did an apprenticeship at the bank of his grandfather. In 1918 he volunteered to the “Royal-Flying-Corps” in Toronto, but the war was over, before he was a trained aviator.

Because of his military belonging, he could study in Oxford, Mississippi, without High school graduation. After two semesters he left the university and worked in a bookshop in New York. With the age of 28 he became a sailor because he desired to go to Europe.

On the 20th June 1929 he married Estelle Oldham Franklin and settled down in Oxford.

He wrote a lot of books and scripts.

In 1932 he was shortly in Hollywood. His accursed father died an William Faulkner didn't go to the funeral.

He won the nobel prize for literature in 1949 and in 1951 he won the national book award for "The collected stories of William Faulkner" , in 1955 the pulitzer prize for his creation "A Fable" and in the same year the national book award for the same creation. In 1963 he won the pulitzer prize again for his book "The Reivers".

After his biggest success the nobel prize for literature in 1949 he was absolutely drunken. Despite his drunkeness he noticed that some people told him lies about the date of his journey to the award ceremony to kepp safe he isn´t drunken there. He continued drinking the whole day and at the award ceremony he was very drunken. At the ceremony he delivered one of the best speechs a laureate ever delivered.

Even in the time when Germany was reigned by Nazis, his books weren't forbidden in Germany. But his real success in Germany was in the time after the war. The labor of William Faulkner had even a big influence on Gottfried Benn, Heinrich Böll, Uwe Johnsons and other famous authors. From 1957 till his death he worked at the University of Virginia.

He died in Oxford, Mississippi, because of Thrombosis on the 6th July 1962 where he was buried at the Saint Peter Cemetery.

Another fact about Faulkner is that he was an alcoholic. His alcohol problems were tallest after his biggest profits.

[Bearbeiten] The effect in Germany

William Faulkner's books weren't banned in Germany as from 1933. In the year 1935 "Light in August" was published. But his biggest result was in the postwar period. His works influenced the producing of Heinrich Bölls, Alfred Andersch and Uwe Johnson.

[Bearbeiten] His works

Most of his stories are taking place in a fictive country called Yoknapatawpha , that has also a fictive county seat called Jefferson, that is nearly similiar to his hometown Oxford (mississippi).In his novels and short stories he tells the stories of this land, and the families living there from the time of the Indians until the time after the 2nd World War. He wrote a couple of novels and movie-scripts. Some of his works even were picturized.

The background of many works is the irresistible decline of the traditional-aristocratic mode of living in the southern states. With themes like sex and violence his works seemed often provocant and scandalous. Caused by that, the acknowledgment for his works became - especially in the USA - delayed.

[Bearbeiten] List of his Works

Novels:

• Soldier's Pay (1926)

• Mosquitoes (1927)

• Sartoris (1929)

• The Sound and the Fury (1929)[1]

• As I Lay Dying (1930) [2]

• Sanctuary (1931) [3][4]

• Light in August (1932)

• Pylon (1965) [5]

• Absalom, Absalom! (1936) [6]

• The Unvanquished (1938) [7] [8]

• The Wild Palms (1939) [9]

• The Hamlet (1940) [10]

• Go Down, Moses (1942) [11] [12]

• Intruder in the Dust (1948)

• Requiem for a Nun (1951)

• A Fable (1954)

• The Town (1957)

• The Mansion (1960)

• The Reivers (1962) [13]

• Flags in the Dust (1973)

Short Stories:

• Landing in Luck (1919)

• A Rose for Emily (1930)

• Red Leaves (1930)

• Dry September (1931)

• That Evening Sun (1931)

• Uncle Willy (1935)

• Barn Burning (1939)

• The Tall Man (1941)

• Two Soldiers (1941)

• Shingles for the Lord (1943)

Scripts:

• To have or have not (1944)

• The Big Sleep (1946)

[Bearbeiten] Works about William Faulkner

• Deborah Cohn: ‘He was one of us’
• Ute Müller: William Faulkner und die Deutsche Nachkriegsliteratur.
• Peter Nicolaisen: William Faulkner
• Michael Schirm: Vom Negro zum Wild Beast
• S. B. Oates: William Faulkner. Sein Leben, Sein Werk
• M. Christadler: Natur und Geschichte im Werk von William Faulkner
• C. Porter: William Faulkner

[Bearbeiten] Awards

• Nobel Prize of Literature (1949)
• Pulitzer Prize (1955 and 1963)
• National Book Award (1955)
• O. Henry Award (1939) for Barn Burning

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