Light In August
(William Faulkner)
Together with Mark Twain and Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, an American novelist and poet, is a bright star in the constellation of so-called ?Southern writers?. Though he was writing heavily ? the first writer?s novel ?Soldier?s pay? was published in 1926 ? Faulkner had not been widely recognized until 1949 when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Every new Faulkner?s work seemed to confute the author?s own statements about his little interest in writing techniques. The novel ?Light in August? may serve as a confutation of such kind. Faulkner uses non-linear narrative dividing a plot into the succession of narrative grounds, which makes a reader watch the same situations from different and even opposing views. He creates a kaleidoscope novel with everything distorted and interpreted through the consciousness of the book characters.
?Light in August? is not only the revealing historical retrospective of post slavery Southern ways, but also a subtle psychological novel. The scene is a small town Jefferson; the public are squalid descendants of slaveowning aristocracy, white slaving men and wretched Negroes. The author is an inquisitive investigator of their dark, unbridled, often fanatic and unbalanced minds.
Among religious, sexual and race motifs, the key one is that of the loneness of those who has been driven out of society ? ghost novel of the dead living midst the quick. So, Jefferson, lapsed into the sweet slumber of an August afternoon, has been woken up by the shocking news of a fire and murder: a white woman brutally slaughtered and the murder is a ?part nigger??
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