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William Cuthbert
Faulkner born in 1897 was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from
Mississippi. Though his works are sometimes considered
challenging, he is regarded as one of America's most influential
fiction writers. Faulkner was known for using long, serpentine
sentences, in contrast to the minimalist style of Ernest
Hemingway. Some consider Faulkner to be the only true American
modernist prose fiction writer of 1930s, following in the
experimental tradition of European writers such as James Joyce,
Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. His work is known for
literary devices like stream of consciousness, multiple
narrations or points of view, and narrative time shifts.
Faulkner was born
in New Albany. His great-grandfather, William Clark Faulkner,
was an important figure in the history of northern Mississippi
who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army, founded a
railroad, and gave his name to the town of Faulkner. Perhaps
most importantly, he wrote several novels and other works,
establishing a literary tradition in the family. Eventually,
Colonel Faulkner became the model for Colonel John Sartoris in
his great-grandson's writing. It is understandable that the
younger Faulkner was influenced by the history of his family and
the region in which they lived. Mississippi marked his sense of
humor, his sense of the tragic position of blacks and whites,
his keen characterization of usual Southern characters and his
timeless themes, one of them being that fiercely intelligent
people dwelled behind the facades of good old boys and
simpletons.
Faulkner's most
celebrated novels include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I
Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), and Absalom, Absaloml
(1936). Faulkner was a prolific writer of short stories: his
first short story collection. These 13 was published in 1932. He
received a Pulitzer Prize for A Fable, and won National Book
Awards for his Collected Stories (1951) тй A Fable (1955).
Faulkner was also
a writer of mysteries, publishing a collection of crime fiction,
Knight's Gambit, Light in August, and The Town. He set many of
his short stories and novels in his fictional Yoknapatawpha
County. Yoknapatawpha was his very own 'postage stamp9 and it is
considered to be one of the most monumental fictional creations
in the history of literature.
In the later
years, Faulkner moved to Hollywood to be a screenwriter
(producing scripts for Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and
Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not). Faulkner donated his
Nobel winnings 'to establish a fund to support and encourage new
fiction writers,' eventually resulting in the PEN/Faulkner Award
for Fiction. Faulkner served as Writer-in-Residence at the
University of Virginia from 1957 until his death in 1962 of a
heart attack.
Translate the
following sentences into English.
1. Фолкнер, лауреат Нобелевской премии, считается одним
из самых влиятельных авторов художественной прозы и известен
произведениями, которые иногда считаются сложными.
2. Он является одним из наиболее значительных американских
прозаиков-модернистов 1930-х годов, который следовал
экспериментаторской традиции европейских писателей, и известен
тем, что использовал такие литературные приемы, как поток
сознания, многоплановое повествование и сдвиги времени
повествования.
3. Он также известен своим мастерским воссозданием типичных
характеров южан и «вечными темами» произведений.
4. Он получил Пулитцеровскую премию и Национальную премию в
области литературы, и был также известен как автор книг с
элементами мистики и сложным сюжетом, действие многих из которых
происходило в вымышленном им округе Йокнопатофа, которое
является «маркой» Фолкнера.
5. Он стал сценаристом и написал много сценариев.
6. Он передал полученную Нобелевскую премию на создание фонда
помощи и поддержки молодых авторов художественной литературы.
7. Фолкнер работал писателем при университете Вирджинии.
8. Он был известен как плодовитый автор коротких рассказов,
издавший ряд сборников коротких рассказов.
1. Faulkner, a Nobel Prize-winning novelist
is regarded as one of the American most influential science
fiction writers, famous for works which are sometimes considered
challenging.
2. He is one of the most important American modernist prose
fiction writers of the 1930s, who followed in the experimental
tradition of European writers and is known for using literary
devices like stream of consciousness, multiple narrations and
narrative time shifts.
3. He is also famous for his keen characterization of usual
Southern characters and his timeless themes.
4. He received a Pulitzer Prize and won National Book Awards,
and was also known as a writer of mysteries, many of which were
set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County which was his own
'postage stamp'.
5. Later he became a screenwriter and produced many scripts.
6. He donated his Nobel winnings to establish a fund to support
and encourage new fiction writers.
7. Faulkner served as Writer-in-Residence at the university of
Virginia.
8. He was famous as a prolific writer of short stories, who
published a number of short story collections.
Из пособия "ЕГЭ. Английский язык.
Устные темы" Занина Е.Л. (2010, 272с.) - Part
two.
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