Hair by William Faulkner

Introduction

William Faulkner is one of the greatest representatives of the literature American. His works have been referring to great Latin American writers, among them we can highlight the Colombian Gabriel and our compatriot Juan Carlos Onetti. William Faulkner was born in 1897, was between two major literary moments, the "lost generation" and a group after this not so radical. He Born in the southern United States in New Alabama, in the state of Mississippi. This directly influences their work in which we see not just a geography but Southern traditions, history and other characteristics of this society (Parini2004, p96) . Faulkner's works take place within what is known as the “Renaissance of the South "which develops after the disaster caused by the “War of Secession. " One of the main features of Faulkner is the fact that he created a whole imaginary world, not only geographically (invention of Yoknapatawpha County, with its capital Johnson) but also in historical and in the repetition of characters in a book to another. These Thirteen is one of the most important books of Faulkner, we note that it has a character and damn dark. The story "A Rose for Emily" is part of this book and is one of the best works of Faulkner, perhaps the best.

Style

With few exceptions, is difficult to read Faulkner. It has a taste for land in any of the points of his story without giving the background story just to have triggered a situation which is counting on detail, which provides multiple digressions, going close from multiple viewpoints, carefully breaking every detail (Gordon2002, p246).

Is also lost his passion for landscapes and subplots, all moved by the authority of a grand style that, yes, it retains at all times have the virtue of shaking the reader. In his writing is necessary to emphasize the taste for spatial and temporal jumps. Some of the strongest features of Faulkner's work arising from the exposure voluntarily confusing, tangled and how dark it is necessary to tell the fictional events, messing the timing, mixing the past with the present and explaining the facts of remembrance previous event. In addition, his novels, even though independent of each other, have common characters who only knows when they have been followed through the various narratives contained. Your world is closed, tight and dense. It should embrace it entirely to understand the importance of the system of communications that unites its various parts (Sensibar2008, p56-85).

In Faulkner's works are memories and dreams, memory of occurrences linked somehow to the novelist's life, and even materials autobiographical source. His characters are looking toward the past, and even those who seem detached from the traditions reveal in their rebellion the dissatisfaction of the actual. Faulkner is Southerner, not only Southern man by birth, but also nostalgic and sentimental yesterday near ideal supporter of losers. The tide of the Yankee winning ways of life destroyed their eyes seem to still beautiful, the weather clears, or mitigate at ...