rs; in 1951 he travelled to Stockholm to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of Intruder in the Dust (1948); in 1951 Faulkner won a National Book Award for his Collected Stories , and in 1955 - the Pulitzer Prize and a second National Book Award for A Fable (1954). After World War II Faulkner also published Requiem for a Nun (1951), The Town (1957), The Mansion (1959), and a high-hearted comedy The Reivers (1962), set in the period of Faulkner < span align = "justify"> s youth. The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion picture the Snopeses - Faulkner s unforgettable portrayal of a sprawling clan of irresponsible, depraved, social ambitious varmints, who rise from the dust and cheat their way to respectability and wealth, destroying the old values ​​of aristocracy and peasantry alike. Faulkner used his native state of Mississippi for the geography of Yoknapatawpha County, his fictional microcosm of the world. An agrarian by disposition, he, like other Southerners, saw in the incursion of commercialism a violent disruption of old virtues and of unselfish and immediate relationship to the land. Recounting man s false steps in history, he saw the Civil War as a guidepost in the culmination of a self-destructive exploitation. Faulkner s prose could be crystal clear, but at his most ambitious he constructed a highly involved syntax to represent the complexities that man must disentangle. Read as metaphors, his fictions came to stand for the perplexed condition of mankind, not simply in America but in the entire modern world. The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! represent his most difficult prose but also his best. Faulkner s troubled picture of what has happened to America is often disturbing to his countrymen and bewildering to non-Americans; but in principle his frankness not only demonstrates a freedom for independent thought but also gives evidence that the same belief in the potentialities of the American dream that characterized the prose of authors like Thoreau still maintains itself in the felt agony that man is less than he can be.Faulkner died on July 6, 1962 of heart attack at his home in Oxford, Mississippi, a month after The Reivers was published. He had become an international celebrity; his works had been translated into all the major European languages, and also into Japanese.Sound and the Fury. The novel is a story of a southern aristocratic family of Compsons. The title and the idea of ​​the novel become clear, when the reader realizes that the words are taken from Shakespeare s tragedy Macbeth: s but a walking shadow, a poor player, struts and frets his hour upon the stage, then is heard no more: it is a taleby an idiot, full of sound and fury, nothing.book consists of four sections from which we learn about the life of four children of the Compson family: Benjy, Quentin, Jason, their sister Caddy and their parents. The first part is the monologue of Benjy, a mentally diseased boy, an idiot whose thoughts rapidly flicker between present and various levels of the past in his morbid imagination. The second section is the monologue of his brother Quentin, a hypersensitive young man, a student of Harvard University. To give him a chance to study the family has lost the last property they had - they sold the pasture. In the third part the fate of the family is pictured by Jason, a moral psychopath. He embodies the features of the new bourgeois order which replaced patriarchal system. He is egoistic, vulgar and cruel, mean, and deprived of good human qualities. Quentin is brave and emotional, Jason is a coward.fourth part is narrated by the author himself.Compson is the primal force of the book. Faulkner chronicles the decline of the American South through his experiences. Benjy struggles to articulate his vision of life. Though at first his story seems to have no real sense and his thoughts are tangled, readers learn much about the old, but poverty-stricken family which has lost all their wealth and dignity. The author sympathizes with the father of the family. He is clever, but not physically strong and skeptical. He has his definite opinion about the time, history, man and society. His wife is a contrast to him. She is physically strong but is constantly complaining of her poor health. Her brother is a good-for-nothing man and a drunkard into the bargain.glimpses from the pear tree the adult world of her parents. It is a bold disappointment. They re not doing anything in there , she complains. Just sitting in chairs and looking. Poised on her bra...
