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The Saddest Words - William Faulkner's Civil War (Hardcover)
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The Saddest Words - William Faulkner's Civil War (Hardcover)
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Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait
of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William
Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his
works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the American Civil
War, the central quarrel in America's history. Born in 1897 in
Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such iconic novels as Absalom, Absalom!
and The Sound and the Fury, creating in Yoknapatawpha County the
richest gallery of characters in American fiction, his achievements
culminating in the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. But given his
works' echo of "Lost Cause" romanticism, his depiction of black
characters and black speech, and his rendering of race relations in
a largely unreconstructed South, Faulkner demands a sobering
reevaluation. Interweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism
and rich travelogue, The Saddest Words recontextualises Faulkner,
revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent
cultural issues facing American literature today.
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