Faulkner
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- proper noun
- /ˈfɔːk.nər/
- My copy of The Reivers, Faulkner's last novel, is a first edition: it was my grandmother's.
- William Faulkner
- a Faulkner novel
- read Faulkner
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Watch on YouTubeThey can write use using Faulkner or Hemingway or Kafka or Commune as models.
- They can write use using Faulkner or Hemingway or Kafka or Commune as models.
- Let me tell you briefly about her life and her family, Just a sort of saga straight from Faulkner.
- And Faulkner said that that's the way his novel started is that a character haunted him.
- That's very reliable thread that Faulkner is giving us.
- But if it was, let's say Hemingway or Faulkner, right?
- And I, I had a great professor and I fell in love with Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Dos Pasos, all the Faulkner, all the Great American authors from there.
- But he he I remember going up there and yeah, everybody you'd have like the drunk as somebody that couldn't even read me like, you know, Faulkner.
Examples
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Somebody might prefer Faulkner's The Hamlet to Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.
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We publish primarily classic literary fiction in the tradition of William Faulkner and Herman Melville.
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So let's see what Faulkner thinks about marriage.
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One was a specialist on Faulkner, and the other on the history of the Black race.
Academic text (1993) -
You really wanna suffer through Faulkner?
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Although exhausted by writing A Fable, Faulkner still felt he had much more to do before it was completed.
Fiction book (1999) -
Such Southern writers as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell also became popular.
Academic text (1993) -
If the past is never dead, as Faulkner asserts, then its fragments must pervade the present.
Academic text (2005) -
You could say something similar about Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, or Richard Wright.
Fiction book (1998) -
William Faulkner is renowned for his unique narrative style and profound exploration of the human condition.
Synonyms
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An American writer from the southern United States known for novels like The Sound and the Fury
Surface Forms
Etymology
Faulkner comes from an old job name for someone who trained or looked after falcons, and it comes from the same word as falcon. So Faulkner originally meant 'falcon keeper', a clear image to help you remember the name.