![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. With Absalom, Absalom (1936) the difficult parts of his famous short novel 'The Bear' (published in Go Down, Moses, 1942) and the allegorical A Fable (1954), a non-Yoknapatawpha novel set. Absalom, Absalom is Faulkners epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. William Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. The story is told entirely in flashbacks narrated mostly by Quentin Compson to his roommate at Harvard University, Shreve, who frequently contributes his own suggestions and surmises. Taking place before, during, and after the Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen.Ībsalom, Absalom! details the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a white man born into poverty in West Virginia who comes to Mississippi with the complementary aims of gaining wealth and becoming a powerful family patriarch. "Absalom, Absalom!" is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. ![]()
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