Beschreibung:
William Faulkner, am 25. September 1897 in New Albany im Staat Missisippi/USA geboren, wuchs in der Nachbarstadt Oxford auf. Im I. Weltkrieg war er Kampfflieger. Nach seiner Rückkehr studierte er Literatur, schlug sich danach in verschiedenen handwerklichen Berufen durch, arbeitete aber auch als Journalist. Schließlich ließ er sich in seiner Heimatstadt als Farmer nieder. Faulkner schrieb zunächst Gedichte später Prosa. Erst die Zuerkennung des Literatur-Nobelpreises im Jahre 1949 machte ihn einem weiteren Publikum bekannt. Viele Themen zog er aus seinem eigenen Hintergrund der niedergegangenen Südstaatenwelt. Der Schriftsteller, der seine Farm in Oxford nie verlassen hat, starb dort am 6. Juli 1962 an einem Herzschlag.
William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new attention on both the novel's contemporary reception and its rich cultural and historical contexts. The text for the Third Edition is again that of the corrected text scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the novel. David Minter's annotations, designed to assist readers with obscure words and allusions, have been retained."Contemporary Reception," new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulkner's extraordinary novel on publication. Michael Gorra's headnote sets the stage for assessments by Evelyn Scott, Henry Nash Smith, Clifton P. Fadiman, Dudley Fitts, Richard Hughes, and Edward Crickmay. New materials by Faulkner ("The Writer and His Work") include letters to Malcolm Cowley about The Portable Faulkner and Faulkner's Nobel Prize for Literature address. "Cultural and Historical Contexts" begins with Michael Gorra's insightful headnote, which is followed by seven seminal considerations-five of them new to the Third Edition-of southern history, literature, and memory. Together, these works-by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Richard Gray, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, William James, and Henri Bergson-provide readers with important contexts for understanding the novel."Criticism" represents eighty-five years of scholarly engagement with The Sound and the Fury. New to the Third Edition are essays by Eric Sundquist, Noel Polk, Doreen Fowler, Richard Godden, Stacy Burton, and Maria Truchan-Tataryn.A Chronology of Faulkner's life and work is newly included along with an updated Selected Bibliography.
William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new attention on both the novel's contemporary reception and its rich cultural and historical contexts.