{"product_id":"becoming-faulkner-the-art-and-life-of-william-faulkner-9780195341539","title":"Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century  yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career  he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional challenges: his less-than-heroic military career; the loss of his brother in an airplane crash; a disappointing stint as a Hollywood screenwriter; and a destructive bout with alcoholism. In this imaginative biography  Philip Weinstein--a leading authority on the great novelist--targets Faulkners embattled sense of self as central to both his life and his work. Weinstein shows how Faulkners troubled interactions with time  place  and history--with antebellum practices and racial division--take on their fullest meanings in his fiction. Exploring the resonance of his own unpreparedness  Faulkner invented a singular language that captured human consciousness under stress as never before. Becoming Faulkner joins Faulkners life and art in a bold new way  giving readers a full vantage from which to better understand this twentieth-century literary genius.  Weinstein shows how Faulkners troubled interactions with time  place  and history--with antebellum practices and southern heritage--form a pattern that played out over the course of his entire life. At the same time  these incidents take on their fullest meanings in his fiction. It was in meditating on his failures  his own unreadiness  Weinstein argues  that Faulkner came up with his singular language  one that captured human consciousness under stress as never before. His fruitless striving catapulted American literature to a new level of sophistication.  Narrating the events that comprised Faulkners life  biographers have long struggled to depict his personal complexity  the paradoxes that shaped his decisions and dogged his relationships. But without a consideration of the writing as well  the troubles in the life fail to reveal their deeper resonance. By skillfully analyzing the work while tracing the events  Weinstein achieves a full portrait  revealing struggles that animate his life and shadows that complicate his work. Becoming Faulkner thus conjoins Faulkners life and art in a bold new way  giving readers a full vantage from which to better understand this twentieth-century literary genius.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652190036021,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195341538","price":131.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195341539.jpg?v=1781849824","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/becoming-faulkner-the-art-and-life-of-william-faulkner-9780195341539","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}