7/5/2023 0 Comments The sound and fury faulkner![]() ![]() Human actions are adjacent, but not contingent. Faulkner's novels occur in a world existing parataxically, events standing in proximity without connection. His novels explore and seek to achieve a conception of existence that relies on no illusions of preservation, no sustentation from any one cause to its supposed effect. ![]() Faulkner, as a defining author of the modernist period, understands and involves the dynamics of loss prominently in his writings. As long as the standard for loss remains as a watermark of value, no loss fully occurs as genuine loss. The loss of values in a post-structuralist era, if the trend is to endure, leads to and demands a greater relinquishment: even its own negation. Modern literature in general displays a certain fascination with loss. to save what did not need the saving, and lost instead yourself' (114). In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner spoke of "defeats in which nobody loses anything of value." In Absalom, Absalom!, he wrote of making "that scratch, that undying mark on the blank face of the oblivion to which we are all doomed." (102) and of finding "that there was nothing to save who had hoped to save her. ![]()
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