【美国人物志】威廉·福克纳 （二）(5/12)

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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:
        Jason
        Compson
        Reverend Hightower
        "Light in August"
        Bayard Sartoris
        William Faulkner  
Another brother, Jason, accuses others of stealing his money and causing his business to fail. At the same time, he is stealing from the daughter of his sister.
Missus Compson, the mother in the family, says of God's actions: "It can't be simply to hurt me. Whoever God is, he would not permit that. I'm a lady."
Some of the people Faulkner creates, like Reverend Hightower in "Light in August," live so much in the past that they are unable to face the present. Others seem to run from one danger to another, like young Bayard Sartoris, seeking his own destruction. These people exist, Faulkner says, "In that dream state in which you run without moving from a terror in which you cannot believe, toward a safety in which you have no belief."