Symbols of Desecration in William Faulkner’s Work Cover Image

Simboluri ale profanării în opera lui William Faulkner
Symbols of Desecration in William Faulkner’s Work

Author(s): Calin Birleanu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, American Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: catharsis; compensatory; moral code; guilt; rape;

Summary/Abstract: In his imaginary worlds, always so appealing for countless categories of readers, Fualkner acted like a researcher who causes situations in order to observe effects or, other times, just by placing human typologies in the same area to observe later how differences and, sometimes, even the similarities are causing movements, reactions and conflicts. Including through this intuitive capacity must be seen his most famous novel, The sound and the fury, whose protagonist made history in world literature and, mostly, in critical, analytical reception of artwork. In the world of the South, where, as particularly subtle the writer inoculates, the absence of tradition and spirituality that generates balance, leads to disintegration and distortion, families dominate through the unwritten law of land and of the those who work, serving, namely the color population

  • Issue Year: XXXIII/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 157-163
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian