erican South as a microcosm for the universal themes of time, the passions of the human heart, and the destruction of the wilderness. Faulkner saw the South as a nation unto itself, with a strong sense of its noble past and an array of myths by which it clung to its pride, despite the humiliating defeat of the Civil War and the acceptance of the distasteful values ​​of an industrial North . Faulkner started to explore these themes in 1929 with the publication of Sartoris (1929) and The Sound and the Fury (1929), two novels published within months of each other. Sartoris was a fairly conventional novel set in mythical Yoknapatawpha, Faulkner s own little postage stamp of native soil. < span align = "justify"> Imaginary Yoknapatawpha is similar in many ways to the actual impoverished farmland, with its red clay hills, that rings Oxford, Mississippi, home of the state s university . It was there that William s father, Murray Falkner, ran a livery stable and later became the university s business manager. William Faulkner lived and wrote there throughout most of his life. The aristocratic Sartorises resemble Faulkner s own ancestors. Colonel Bayard Sartoris, for example, was patterned after Faulkner s great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to command the Second Mississippi Regiment, built a railroad, wrote a best-selling novel , and was murdered on the street by his business partner.Sound and the Fury was a milestone in American literature, due to Faulkner s bold manipulation of point of view and of its stream- of-consciousness narrative technique. It is a tragic story of the decline and fall of the Compson family. The Compsons incorporate some characteristics of the author s immediate family. The novel is rather experimental in its technique, and falls in four sections. Only one section, the fourth, is told from a conventional point of view.Faulkner s novels were not a commercial success, he was able to make a living by writing short stories, most of which were published in the magazine Saturday Evening Post. This enabled him to marry, his childhood sweetheart Estelle Oldham after she divorced her first husband, and to buy a pre-Civil War mansion.the decade which followed, Faulkner produced a succession of dazzling books: in 1930 appeared his comedy As I Lay Dying that tells of the poor-white Bundren family and its efforts to bring the body of its matriarch, Addie, back to the town of Jefferson for burial. The novel reveals these humble people as more enduring than their social betters. It was followed by Sanctuary (1931), a tale about the rape and corruption of a Southern belle, and Light in August (1932), a poetic work in which Faulkner first confronted the South s tragic legacy of racism. It s about complex and violent relations between a white woman and a black man. The novel concerns the Burden family and explores the problem of racism through the character of the protagonist, Joe Christmas. Although he can pass as white, Joe is regarded as a mulatto; his failure to find a place in either white or black society leads to his murder.success of these novels brought him fame and an invitation to come to Hollywood to write screenplays. Thus appeared films like Road to Glory, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, and Land of the Pharaohs.1932 Faulkner continued to publish novels but this was not as prolific period as the first one. The principal product of the writer in this period was, perhaps, a novel Absalom, Absalom! (1936) about the rise of a self-made plantation owner and his tragic fall through racial prejudice and a failure to love. Then appeared The Unvanquished (1938). This was followed by The Hamlet (1940), the first volume of a trilogy about the Snopes clan. These works reveal Faulkner as equally skillful in the tragic and the comic modes. He portrayed the South accurately, perceptively, and with a poignant ambivalence - on the one hand affectionate, on the other critical. He once said of the South, Well, I love it and I hate it. 1942 he published Go Down, Moses, a novel in the form of linked stories, about several generations in the McCaslin family, of white, black, and mixed blood. It was a failure upon publication, and was followed by six years silence. It was due to the paperback publication The Portable Faulkner which appeared in 1946 that the Southern writer was reintroduced; a public was ready to appreciate his talent. Faulkner was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Lette...
