內容簡介
Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, The Sound and the Fury explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. At its heart this is a novel about lovelessness - 'only an idiot has no grief; only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts.
《喧嘩與騷動》是福剋納第一部成熟的作品,也是作傢花費心血最多、本人最喜歡的小說。小說進述的是南方沒落地主康普生一傢的傢族悲劇。老康普生手遊好閑、嗜酒貪杯,其妻自私冷酷、怨天尤人。長子昆丁絕望地抱住南方所謂的舊傳統不放,因妹妹凱蒂風流成性、有辱南方淑女身份而恨疚交加,竟至溺水自殺。次子傑生冷酷貪婪,三子班吉則是個白癡,三十三歲時隻有三歲小兒的智能。全通過這三下兒子的內心獨白,圍繞凱蒂的墮落展開,最後則由黑人女傭迪爾西對前三部分的“有限視角”做一補充,歸結全書。小說大量運用多視角敘述方法及意識流法手法,是意識流小說乃至整個現代派小說的經典名著。
作者簡介
Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi,
William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July1962.
威廉·福剋納(Willian Faulkner 1897~1962),美國小說傢。齣生於沒落地主傢庭,第一次世界大戰時在加拿大空軍中服役,戰後曾在大學肄業一年,1925年後專門從事創作。他被西方文學界視作“現代的經典作傢”。共寫瞭19部長篇小說和70多篇短篇小說。其中絕大多數故事發生在虛構的約剋納帕塔法縣,被稱為“約剋納帕塔法世係”。這部世係主要寫該縣及傑弗遜鎮不同社會階層的若乾傢庭幾代人的故事。時間從獨立戰爭前到第二次世界大戰以後,齣場人物有600多人,其中主要人物在他的不同作品中交替齣現,實為一部多捲體的美國南方社會變遷的曆史。其最著名的作品有描寫傑弗遜鎮望族康普生傢庭的沒落及成員的精神狀態和生活遭遇的《喧嘩與騷動》(又譯《聲音與瘋狂》1929);寫安斯·本德侖偕兒子運送妻子靈柩迴傑弗遜安葬途中經曆種種磨難的《我彌留之際》(1930);寫孤兒裘·剋裏斯默斯在宗教和種族偏見的播弄、虐待下悲慘死去的《八月之光》(1932);寫一個有罪孽的莊園主塞德潘及其子女和莊園的毀滅性結局的《押沙龍,押沙龍!》(1936);寫新興資産階級弗萊姆·斯諾普斯的冷酷無情及其必然結局的《斯諾普斯三部麯》(《村子》1940,《小鎮》1957,《大宅》(1959)等。
福剋納1949年獲諾貝爾文學奬。
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