The Unvanquished | Ideas for Group Discussion
Faulkner was working closely with materials based on his own family in Sartoris and The Unvanquished. Of the many biographies on Faulkner, Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography (1974) does the best job of dealing with Colonel John Falkner and his descendants who mirror the fictional John and Bayard Sartoris. John Falkner's military career during the Civil War, the shooting of Colonel Falkner, and the revival of the family fortunes through a railroad now a part of the Illinois Central are repeated in the novel. After reading the chapter, "The Ancestors," in Blotner,...
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