William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Absalom, Absalom!
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 01/1995
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780099475118
- Item number:
- 5066329
- Volume:
- 384 Pages
- Weight:
- 275 g
- Format:
- 198 x 130 mm
- Thickness:
- 27 mm
- Release date:
- 19.1.1995
- Series:
- Vintage Classics
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up toIntruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler.
William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.
Biography
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.
