The Life of William Faulkner Rollyson Carl
The Life of William Faulkner Rollyson Carl By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner ("A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados"-- Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from…
Specifikacia The Life of William Faulkner Rollyson Carl
The Life of William Faulkner Rollyson Carl
By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner ("A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados"-- Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the century, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August. Feeling, as an artist, he should be above worldly concerns and even morality, he has instead inherited only debts--a symptom of the South's faded fortunes--and numerous mouths to feed and funerals to fund. The second and concluding volume of Carl Rollyson's ambitious biography finds Faulkner lamenting the many threats to his creative existence.
And so he turns to the classic temptation for financially struggling writers--Hollywood.Thus begins roughly a decade of shuttling between his home and family in