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Light in August is a 1932 novel by American author William Faulkner.It belongs to the Southern gothic and modernist literary genres.. Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers on two strangers, a pregnant white woman and a man who passes as white but who believes himself to be of mixed ethnicity.
Light in August: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas [6] 1935 Pylon: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas First novel since Mosquitoes not to be set in Yoknapatawpha County. [3] 1936 Absalom, Absalom! Random House A foreword to the novel by author John Jeremiah Sullivan has been included in the Modern Library edition of the novel published in April 2012.
William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.
Palumbo, Donald (1979). "The Concept of God in Faulkner's Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom!". South Central Bulletin. 34 (4): 142–46. doi:10.2307/3188498. JSTOR 3188498. Polk, Noel. "Trying Not to Say: A Primer on the Language of The Sound and the Fury". New Essays on The Sound and the Fury. Ed ...
The fact that, not only in ′Light in August′, Faulkner's characters make frequent use of the "N" word (faithfully reproduced in the German translation by Franz Fein) may have contributed to misunterstanding him as a racist author, while he was only reflecting common racism in the American South of his days.92.79.101.164 08:47, 18 July 2019 ...
Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges translated the complete novel into Spanish as Las palmeras salvajes (1940). The Wild Palms is quoted in Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 film, Breathless ("À bout de souffle"), when Patricia claims to prefer to take "grief rather than nothing"; the same quote is cited in the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, when Principal Rooney "consoles" Sloan while ...
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The title is thought to be taken from the song Saint Louis Blues, originally composed by W.C. Handy, but popularized by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong in 1927. It begins with the line: "Lordy, how I hate to see that evening sun go down."