世界文学经典读本：喧哗与骚动（英文版）
内容简介
《世界文学经典读本：喧哗与骚动（英文版）》以虚构的杰佛生镇为背景，表现康普生一家前后三十年间败落的经过，这个从前的美国南方贵族之家不仅经济陷于窘境，宗教信仰乃至伦理观念也几近沦丧，从而导致杰佛生镇的居民失去对他们的尊重：长子昆丁具有旧时代的骑士精神和强烈的荣誉感，因妹妹凯蒂失身于人而自杀；凯蒂婚后仳离，沦落风尘；老三杰森抱着物质至上的观念，变成冷酷无情的自私鬼；有严重智障、被去势的本吉则能洞见每个人物背后的隐秘的动机……仿佛受到命运的诅咒，这个家庭的多数成员最终遭致悲惨的结局。
作者简介
福克纳（William Faulkner）（1897-1962）， American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford， Mississippi. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories， many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County， a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County， where he spent most of his life.
Faulkner was one of the most important writers in Southern literature in the United States， along with Mark Twain， Robert Penn Warren， Flannery O'Connor， Truman Capote， Eudora Welty， Thomas Wolfe， Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams.
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