William Faulkner, a Nobel Prize winner, has an important position in American literature. Name two of his major novels. Do you know anything about "Yoknapatawpha County" What is unique of Faulkner’s fiction, historically and geographically
参考答案:A. The Sound and the Fury, Light in August.
B. Yoknapatawpha County is an imaginary place based on Faulkner’s childhood memory about the place where he grew up, the town of Oxford in his native Lafayette County. This small region in the American South has become an allegory or a parable of the Old South.
C. Most of Faulkner’s works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.