Modern US fiction author

William Cuthbert Falkner (born Falkner, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood.[1]

Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.[2] Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[3]

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were 1930's As I Lay Dying and Light in August (1932).

"When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral…” It seems that Emily was a well-known person in Jefferson. So who was she?

Emily was a little girl living with her cruel father. He was a real despot. All the time Emily was suppressed by him. His total control spread to her feelings either. Because of her father Emily’s personality was being developed in an ugly and unnatural way. It was a great relief for Emily when her father died. By that time Emily had already become a woman.

Time passed, and Emily met a man. His name was Homer Barron. He came into her life by chance. In some time Emily understood that she loved him. Unintentionally Homer broke the ice that had been paralyzing woman’s feelings. She loved, and that was great! For the first time in her life Emily started to live. And she gave herself up to this Love, to this Man in her Life.

One day Emily found out that Homer Barron "liked men”. It was better for her to let him go. But she couldn’t. He was Hers! She loved him more than anybody or anything else including her own life. But he didn’t love her. All creativeness of Emily’s love became destructive all of a sudden.

Emily killed Homer. She killed him to stay with him forever. She killed him to save her life. The love was unrequited, but Emily didn’t care. Till the end of her life Emily lived with Homer’s dead body. Every night she slept with him in a bed. Only God knows what else she could do. And all this time she lived with only one thought in her mind: he killed her Love to stay with it forever.

There is no doubt that Emily went through unreal, incredible inner tortures. Her mind must have been ruptured all the time. The creative power of love ruined her life. She was closed from the world and people outside her house. There were only Emily and the demons in her mind. Emily didn’t live at all. Probably she was emotionally dead after Homer’s death.

And the only thing she got for all her tortures was a lonely rose on her grave.

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