| | ''The Sound and the Fury'' is considered Faulkner's finest work, which consists of four segments narrating a single day each, three in 1928 and one in 1910. They are written as stream-of-consciousness, one of which was a mentally impaired person. ''Absalom, Absalom!'', another of Faulkner's novels, is considered by [[liberal]]s to be the greatest southern novel ever written, but it frequently uses the N-word, even gratuitously by characters depicted as enlightened. [[Conservative]]s would consider ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' to be a finer southern novel. In Faulkner's characteristically bizarre style, his novel ''Absalom, Absalom!'' contains the longest sentence in [[America]]n literature: 1,228 words.<ref>http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/when-william-faulkner-set-the-world-record-for-writing-the-longest-sentence-in-literature.html</ref> (Other very long sentences are in Jonathan Coe’s ''The Rotter’s Club'' (a 13,955 word sentence) and James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' (a 4,391 word sentence).<ref>https://thejohnfox.com/long-sentences/</ref> | | ''The Sound and the Fury'' is considered Faulkner's finest work, which consists of four segments narrating a single day each, three in 1928 and one in 1910. They are written as stream-of-consciousness, one of which was a mentally impaired person. ''Absalom, Absalom!'', another of Faulkner's novels, is considered by [[liberal]]s to be the greatest southern novel ever written, but it frequently uses the N-word, even gratuitously by characters depicted as enlightened. [[Conservative]]s would consider ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' to be a finer southern novel. In Faulkner's characteristically bizarre style, his novel ''Absalom, Absalom!'' contains the longest sentence in [[America]]n literature: 1,228 words.<ref>http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/when-william-faulkner-set-the-world-record-for-writing-the-longest-sentence-in-literature.html</ref> (Other very long sentences are in Jonathan Coe’s ''The Rotter’s Club'' (a 13,955 word sentence) and James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' (a 4,391 word sentence).<ref>https://thejohnfox.com/long-sentences/</ref> |
| − | ''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.<ref>https://www.apnews.com/b8f43ca4132af2b0d54b74d757b268b6</ref> Under pressure from the [[ACLU]], the Board voted 4-1 to reverse the ban. | + | ''As I Lay Dying'' relies on profanity, includes references to an [[abortion]], and questions the existence of [[God]]. It was initially banned for high school students by a Kentucky school board in 1986 for those reasons.<ref>https://www.apnews.com/b8f43ca4132af2b0d54b74d757b268b6</ref> Under pressure from the [[ACLU]], the Board voted 4-1 to reverse the ban. |
| | Faulkner eventually married his childhood sweetheart in 1929, after she divorced the man she had married a decade earlier, under pressure from her family.<ref>https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html</ref> | | Faulkner eventually married his childhood sweetheart in 1929, after she divorced the man she had married a decade earlier, under pressure from her family.<ref>https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html</ref> |