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Faulkner At Work

• FAULKNER’S TECHNIQUES
• FAULKNER’S REVISING
• CRITICAL RECEPTION
• NOTES

FAULKNER’S TECHNIQUES

Over the course of his career Faulkner became, as dozens of other writers who have written about him have stated, a master at many technical aspects of writing fiction. The simplest judgment on his career is that of French novelist Claude Simon, who said, “Faulkner is the Picasso of literature.”¹ Like Pablo Picasso, Faulkner made use of techniques derived from recent discoveries in many realms of thought: ethnology, psychology, philosophy, music, and of course painting, sculpture, and writing. From the first, he made unusual applications of techniques first explored by the writers of psychological fiction, that is, fiction in which the play of mind becomes as important as, or more...

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1. Introduction
2. About William Faulkner
3. Faulkner At Work
4. Faulkner’s Era
5. Faulkner’s Works
6. Faulkner On Faulkner
7. Study Questions
8. The Falkners Of Mississippi: A Supplementary Chronology
9. Bibliography
10. Copyright

1. William Faulkner