"Als ich im Sterben lag" ist ein Roman von William Faulkner, der die Geschichte der Familie Bundren erzählt. Die Matriarchin Addie Bundren liegt im Sterben und ihr letzter Wunsch ist es, auf dem Friedhof ihrer Heimatstadt Jefferson...

Benjamin Compson, schwachsinniger Sohn von Jason III und Caroline Compson, wird 33 Jahre alt. Er beschreibt, was er von seinem Geburtstag wahrnimmt und erinnert sich an bedeutende Ereignisse in der Geschichte der Familie. Am Beispiel der...

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." -William Faulkner These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work as a whole. Spotted Horses is a...

"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters" von William Faulkner ist eine Sammlung von nicht-fiktionalen Schriften des renommierten amerikanischen Autors. Die Sammlung umfasst eine Vielzahl von Texten, die Einblicke in Faulkners Gedankenwelt und...

"Read, read, read. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If...

Seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small circle of the earth, who die unrecorded. Their epitaphs make a...

"The Hamlet" ist der erste Roman in William Faulkners berühmter "Snopes-Trilogie". Der 1940 veröffentlichte Roman spielt im fiktiven Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi und untersucht den Aufstieg der Snopes-Familie, einer skrupellosen...

An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who with the help...

In this feverishly beautiful novel-originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem-William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a...

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After...

"I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing." -William...

'Brilliant and compelling-one is constrained to follow to the end' SpectatorThe death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as...