William Faulkner

Introduction

William Faulkner was born in New Albany (Mississippi) on the 25th of September. He belongs to the family of a business manager of the University Murray Charles Faulkner and Maud (Butler) Faulkner. His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, during the war, North and South served in the Confederate Army and was the author of the well-known at the time of the novel "The White Rose of Memphis." When Faulkner was a child, the family moved to the city of Oxford, to the north of the state where the writer lived his entire life.

One of the famous storyteller and poet of the United States of America; his real name was Falkner, later in the year the poet and author changed his name for commercial reasons. In his work, he showed the psychological drama and emotional depth, using a long serpentine prose, plus a thorough glossary.

The oldest of four brothers from a traditional Southern family, William was born New Albany however, grew up near Oxford. In 1915, he left school; he detested and planned to work in the bank of his grandfather. In World War I, he was a part of the Canadian Air Force.

His influence is evident in the generation of South American writers of the second half of the twentieth century. García Márquez in his Living to Tell and Vargas Llosa in The fish in the water, admit their influence on the narrative, rather than to read it emerges more as an influence.

In the year 1918, Estelle Oldham, in which Faulkner was in love with since childhood, married another man. Then he enrolled in flight military school, but before he could finish the course, the First World War ended. Faulkner returned to Oxford and began attending classes at the University of Mississippi; however, soon he abandoned it. The year before in 1919 - he made his literary debut in the magazine 'The New Republic' published his poem "The Day Dream faun (Karl, pp: 65).

Although his life was spent mostly in the South, which would provide a virtually infinite fictional inspiration, he traveled a lot in a number places such as the well acknowledged cities like New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York and even Toronto. Later he enjoyed nearly 5 years in Paris, where noteworthy that frequented the literary groups of the professed Lost Generation.

Truly it would be hard to argue that a story without realities like love any pride would be advised even a good article let solely a large one. On his return, he became a senior at the University of Mississippi; he soon left to pursue a living, doing odd jobs. In 1924, he published his account, “The Marble Faun”, a book of poems unoriginal.

In 1925, Faulkner had met in New Orleans with the writer Sherwood Anderson. He recommended paying more attention to Faulkner's prose, not poetry, and advised him to write that Faulkner knows best of the American South, about one tiny part of this land, "the size of a postage stamp." Soon, Mississippi has a new district, ...