【美国人物志】威廉·福克纳 （一）(6/10)
威廉·福克纳，美国作家，一生共写了19部长篇小说与近百篇短篇小说，其中15部长篇与绝大多数短篇的故事都发生在约克纳帕塔法县，称为约克纳帕塔法世系。其主要脉络是这个县杰弗逊镇及其郊区的属于不同社会阶层的若干个家族的几代人的故事，时间从1800年起直到第二次世界大战以后。世系中共600多个有名有姓的人物在各个长篇、短篇小说中穿插交替出现。其中最有代表性的作品是《喧哗与骚动》。Hints：
Faulkner
the University of Mississippi
World War One
Oxford
British Royal Flying Corps
Canada
"war wound. "
http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201301/201301121032122966488.mp3Faulkner was a good student. Yet by the time he was 15 he had left school. Except for a year at the University of Mississippi at the end of World War One, that was the last of his official education. He took a number of jobs in Oxford, but did not stay with any of them. He began to think that he was a writer. Then in 1918 the woman he loved married another man. Faulkner left Mississippi and joined the British Royal Flying Corps. He was sent to Canada to train to fight in World War One. The war ended before he could be sent to Europe. He returned to Oxford, walking with difficulty because of what he said was a "war wound. "
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