威廉·福克纳是二十世纪美国现代主义文学巨匠，他的作品给全世界作家带来深远影响。他所虚构的“约克纳帕塔法世系”是其最核心的文学创作，为后世作家的文学创作提供了灵感源泉。今天我们为大家带来的是他的经典作品之一《八月之光》，一起在文字中见证历史的创伤。

作品简介

《八月之光》是美国作家威廉·福克纳于1932年出版的长篇小说，属于其虚构的“约克纳帕塔法世系”的核心作品。作品通过描写杰弗生镇的社会生活，揭示了几个主要人物的一生及三代家史。作者用美国南方八月神奇的自然之光，比照人类心灵深处亘古不变的善良、怜悯和牺牲精神。作品采用多重叙述视角，情节结构设计精心，是威廉·福克纳的重要代表作。

 

作者简介

威廉·福克纳（William Faulkner，1897-1962），美国文学史上最具影响力的作家之一，也是意识流文学在美国的代表人物。一生共写作19部长篇小说与120多篇短篇小说，同时还进行诗歌和剧本创作。他绝大多数作品中的故事都发生在约克纳帕塔法县，以该县杰弗生镇若干家族几代人为主角，因此被称为“约克纳帕塔法世系”。代表作有《喧哗与骚动》《押沙龙，押沙龙！》等。

 

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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking factory purlieus and enclosed by a ten foot steel-and-wire fence like a penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike childtrebling, orphans in identical and uniform blue denim in and out of remembering but in knowing constant as the bleak walls, the bleak windows where in rain soot from the yearly adjacenting chimneys streaked like black tears.

In the quiet and empty corridor, during the quiet hour of early afternoon, he was like a shadow, small even for five years, sober and quiet as a shadow. Another in the corridor could not have said just when and where he vanished, into what door, what room. But there was no one else in the corridor at this hour. He knew that. He had been doing this for almost a year, ever since the day when he discovered by accident the toothpaste which the dietitian used.

本书是一部比较威廉·福克纳与中国新时期作家的文学学术著作，是国内首部系统阐释福克纳和余华、苏童、贾平凹、格非、张炜以及毕飞宇等中国作家关系的著作，具有一定创新性学术价值。全书分为七章，主要内容如下：第一章“福克纳与中国新时期作家：影响与接受”，第二章“福克纳与余华小说时间观比较研究”，第三章“福克纳与苏童人物形象比较研究”，第四章“福克纳与贾平凹的现代英雄神话叙事比较研究”，第五章“格非与福克纳小说的诗化书写”，第六章“福克纳与张炜小说文学伦理学比较研究”，第七章“福克纳与毕飞宇小说女性书写比较研究”。

This book explores the environment that conditioned Faulkner’s creative work. It provides a broad and authoritative framework that will help readers to better understand this widely read yet challenging writer. Each essay offers a critical assessment of Faulkner’s work as it relates to such topics as genre, reception, and the significance of place. Although Faulkner dwelt in his native Mississippi throughout his life, his visits to cities like New Orleans, Paris, and Hollywood profoundly shaped his early career. Inextricable from the dramatic upheavals of the twentieth century, Faulkner’s writing was deeply affected by the two Great Wars, the Great Depression, and the civil rights movement. In this volume, a host of renowned scholars shed light on this enigmatic writer and render him accessible to students and researchers alike.

 

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