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威廉·福克纳（Willian Faulkner 1897～1962），美国小说家，出生于没落地主家庭，第一次世界大战时在加拿大空军中服役，战后曾在大学肄业一年，1925年后专门从事创作。他被西方文学界视作“现代的经典作家”，共写了19部长篇小说和70多篇短篇小说。其中绝大多数故事发生在虚构的约克纳帕塔法县，被称为“约克纳帕塔法世系”。这部世系主要写该县及杰弗生镇不同社会阶层的若干家庭几代人的故事。时间从独立战争前到第二次世界大战以后，出场人物有600多人。其中主要人物在他的不同作品中交替出现，实为一部多卷体的美国南方社会变迁的历史。其最著名的作品有描写杰弗生镇望族康普生家庭的没落及成员的精神状态和生活遭遇的《喧哗与骚动》（又译《声音与疯狂》1929）；写安斯·本德仑偕儿子运送妻子灵柩回杰弗生安葬途中经历种种磨难的《我弥留之际》（1930）；写孤儿裘·克里斯默斯在宗教和种族偏见的播弄、虐待下悲惨死去的《八月之光》（1932）；写一个有罪孽的庄园主萨德本及其子女和庄园的毁灭性结局的《押沙龙，押沙龙！》（1936）；写新兴资产阶级弗莱姆·斯诺普斯的冷酷无情及其必然结局的《斯诺普斯三部曲》（《村子》1940，《小镇》1957，《大宅》1959）等。福克纳在1949年获诺贝尔文学奖。
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威廉·卡斯伯特·福克纳（William Cuthbert Faulkner，1897年9月25日－1962年7月6日）是美国密西西比州的小说家20世纪最有影响力的作家之一，他是1949年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。他以长篇和中短篇小说见长，然而他同时也是一名出版诗人和编剧家。大多数福克纳的作品背景被设定为他的故乡密西西比河畔，同时他也被认为最重要的南部作家之一。与马克吐温、罗伯特·潘·沃伦、弗兰纳里·奥康纳，杜鲁门·卡波，尤多拉·韦尔蒂，田纳西·威廉斯齐名。在他获得诺贝尔奖之前，他几乎无人所知尽管他的作品频频在十九世纪二十年代中期被发表。他现在被认为是美国最重要的作家之一。
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你要中文的版本还是英文的？先提供中文的：不管在什么地方，只要谈到美国文学，人们都认为威廉·福克纳(William Faulkner)是二十世纪最伟大的作家之一。他是美国“南方文学”派的创始人，也是整个西方最有影响的现代派小说家之一。他的代表作品有《喧哗与骚动》、《八月之光》等等。福克纳（1897～1962）Faulkner，William美国作家。1897年9 月25日生于密西西比一庄园主后裔家庭，1962年7月6日卒于密西西比贝克斯福。福克纳从小生长在美国南方，年轻时曾在当地邮政局做过一阵不太负责任的局长，后因玩忽职守而被辞退。他游历过许多地方，但最终依然回到美国南方，并且所有的作品都以南方为背景。1949年，因为“他对当代美国小说作出了强有力的和艺术上无与伦比的贡献”，福克纳获诺贝尔文学奖。生平第一次世界大战时他在加拿大空军学校学飞行，战后在密西西比大学肄业。1925年出版第一部小说《士兵的报酬》，写参加第一次世界大战的青年的痛苦与幻灭感。后去欧洲游历，回到家乡后靠干各种杂活为生。1929年出版的《沙多里斯》是以自己虚构的约克纳帕塔法县为背景的小说。30年代初，福克纳的几部代表作已经出版，在美国文学界受到一些作家与批评家的高度推崇，但是除了《圣殿》之外，他的书销路都很差。为了维持生活，他不得不去好莱坞为电影公司写电影脚本。1946年马尔科姆·考利编辑的《袖珍本福克纳文集》出版并附有考利所写长序，这使人们开始认识福克纳是个兼有深度、广度、历史感、乡土气与现代意识的大作家。以萨特、加缪为代表的法国文学界对福克纳的高度评价引起了诺贝尔文学奖评委们对这个蛰居美国边远南方的作家的注意，福克纳在1950年获得了1949年度的诺贝尔文学奖。此后，他多次接受美国国务院的委派，出访日本、瑞典、委内瑞拉等国。1962年6 月福克纳在家乡骑马坠下受伤，7月6日因心脏病发作而卒。英文：William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist, known for his epic portrayal, in some 20 novels, of the tragic conflict between the old and the new South. Although Faulkner's intricate plots and complex narrative style alienated many readers of his early writings, he was a literary genius whose powerful works and creative vision earned him the 1949 Nobel Prize in literature.Faulkner was a towering figure in American literature during the first half of the 20th century. With Ernest Hemingway, he is usually considered one of the two greatest American novelists of his era. Faulkner was particularly noted for the eloquent richness of his prose style and for the unique blend of tragedy and humor in his works. His novels have a stunning emotional impact and his characters are highly memorable. The dramatic force and vividness of Faulkner’s best work is unsurpassed in modern fiction.Using the decay and corruption of the South after the American Civil War (1861-1865) as a background, Faulkner portrayed the tragedy that occurs when the traditional values of a society disintegrate. Some of his chief concerns were the nature of evil and guilt and the relationship between the past and the present. Despite his preoccupation with depravity and violence, however, Faulkner also wrote of people’s capacity to perform acts of nobility and goodness.Among Faulkner’s most remarkable short stories is “A Rose for Emily” (1931), which contains elements of the author’s common theme of the decline of the old South. Go Down, Moses, a volume of stories about the McCaslin family, includes the author’s well-known novella “The Bear.” Another story that would later be anthologized as a Faulkner classic is “That Evening Sun” (1931), which also features the Compson family."A Rose for Emily" recounts the story of an eccentric spinster, Emily Grierson. An unnamed narrator details the strange circumstances of Emily’s life and her odd relationships with her father, who controlled and manipulated her, and her lover, the Yankee road worker Homer Barron. When Homer Barron threatens to leave her, she is seen buying arsenic, which the townspeople believe she will commit suicide with. After this, Homer Barron is not heard from again, and is assumed to have returned north. Though she does not commit suicide, the townspeople of Jefferson continue to gossip about her and her eccentricities, citing her family's history of mental illness. She is heard from less and less, and rarely ever leaves her home. Unbeknownst to the townspeople until her death, in her upstairs room she hides all day with the corpse of Homer Barron, which explains the horrid stench that emits from Miss Emily's house.The story’s complexities have inspired critics while casual readers found the work one of Faulkner’s most accessible (and shortest) works. The popularity of the story was due in no small part to its gruesome ending.The story explores many themes, including the society of the South at that time, the role of women in the South, and extreme psychosis.
