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→Quotations: - from ''Requiem for a Nun'' (1951).
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Faulkner: “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
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Though portrayed as liberal, he penned the conservative ''Requiem for a Nun'' (1951) about a woman overcoming her troubled past.
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Yet in some non-racial ways Faulkner was conservative.
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A thoughtful essay explains many conservative themes by Faulkner: "Faulkner revealed his conservative vision in novels like ''Absalom, Absalom!'' (1936) and ''Requiem for a Nun'' (1951) espousing the eternal verities of civilization,"
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Faulkner's first child, to whom he dedicated (along with his wife) his first published collection of essays, was a baby girl named "Alabama" born two months prematurely. She tragically died ten days later while Faulkner was attempting to obtain an incuba
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also questions the existence of God
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As I Lay Dying relies on profanity and includes references to an abortion, and was initially banned by a Kentucky school board in 1986 for those reasons.
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Faulkner also lied throughout his life about war injuries he never had.
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A favorite of liberals in the second half of the 20th century, particularly as mandatory reading for high school students, Faulkner's frequent reliance on the "N-word" in many of his novels has caused him to be abandoned by many today.
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In Faulkner's characteristically bizarre style, his novel ''Absalom, Absalom!'' contains the longest sentence in American literature: 1,228 words.
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''Absalom, Absalom!'', another of Faulkner's novels, is considered by liberals to be the greatest southern novel ever written, but it frequently uses the N-word, even gratuitously so by characters depicted as enlightened.
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''Absalom, Absalom!'', another of Faulkner's novels, is considered by liberals to be the greatest southern novel ever written, although conservatives would consider ''Gone With the Wind'' to earn that honor.
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''As I Lay Dying'' contains 56,903 words and relatively high use of the passive voice.
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Other very long sentences are in ...
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Essentially self-taught and homeschooled, Faulkner never graduated from high school.
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In Faulkner's characteristically bizarre style, this novel contains the longest sentence in literature: 1,228 words.
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... winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 as reportedly recommended to the committee by a Swedish journalist who translated American novelists.
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Liberals like Faulkner for his mockery of southern whites, which Faulkner does in the form of stream-of-consciousness in "As I Lay Dying."
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His novel "Absalom, Absalom!" is widely considered to be the greatest southern novel ever written.
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