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William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the 20th century, yet he resided a life designated by the pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional issues: his less-than-heroic armed service career; the loss of his brother in an aircraft crash; a disappointing stint as a Hollywood screenwriter; and a damaging bout with alcoholism. Within this imaginative biography, Philip Weinstein - a respected authority on the great novelist - focuses on Faulkner's embattled sense of do it yourself as central to both his life and his work. Weinstein shows how Faulkner's stressed interactions as time passes, place, and record - with antebellum methods and racial division - undertake their fullest meanings in his fiction. Checking out the resonance of his own unpreparedness, Faulkner invented a singular dialect that captured human being consciousness under stress as nothing you've seen prior. Becoming Faulkner joins Faulkner's life and art in a strong new way, providing listeners a full vantage from which to better understand this 20th-century literary genius. Weinstein shows how Faulkner's stressed interactions as time passes, place, and record - with antebellum methods and southern history - form a structure that enjoyed out during the period of his life time. At the same time, these incidents undertake their fullest meanings in his fiction. It had been in meditating on his failures, his own unreadiness, Weinstein argues, that Faulkner came up with his singular dialect, one which captured human consciousness under stress as nothing you've seen prior. His fruitless striving catapulted American literature to a fresh level of sophistication. Narrating the events that comprised Faulkner's life, biographers have long battled to depict his personal intricacy, the paradoxes that designed his decisions and dogged his connections. But without a thought of the writing as well, the troubles in the life fail to disclose their deeper resonance. By skillfully analyzing the work while tracing the events, Weinstein achieves a full portrait, revealing challenges that animate his life and shadows that complicate his work. Becoming Faulkner thus conjoins Faulkner's life and art in a strong new way, providing listeners a full vantage from which to better understand this 20th-century literary genius.
