"The victim of one's victim" The process of victimization in William Faulkner's The sound and the fury

Abstract

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury was written eighty years ago but is still considered a unique and a remarkable novel. It was published in the "annus mirabilis" (Andrews 251), i.e. the miraculous year of 1929, which introduced literary works of authors who changed the world of literature substantially. Ernest Miller Hemingway's war novel A Farewell to Arms influenced other representatives of one literary generation, i.e. the Lost Generation just as Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Faulkner's essential novel participated in the genesis of a literary movement: Modernism, or American Modernism, respectively. The difficult structure of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury did not wait for first interpretations - it was discussed and analyzed the moment it reached the hands of critics, university professors and students. Scholars examined the peculiar specifics of Faulkner's style of writing as well as the tangled web of his meticulously constructed characters and his precisely arranged passages and chapters. Various aspects: his use of madness and sanity, his unique concept of time organized according to psychological rather than linear time, a stream of consciousness narrative, warped heroes, "disruptive female characters" (Roberts, XI) - all seen from the perspective of Faulkner's fictitious...

Williama Faulknera l nositele Nobelovy ceny za literaturu z roku 1949 1 povazuji literarni kritici za jednoho z nejvetsich autoru 20. stoleti. Jeho roman The Sound and the Fury (ve starsim prekladu Hluk a zuiivost, v modernejsim podani Lubya Rudolfa Pellarovych coby Hluk a viava (1997)) 1 se pak radi k spisovatelove vrcholne tvorbe. Celozivotni literarni dilo Williama Faulknera l jez je pevne zakoreneno v teritoriu americkeho Jihu a hlasi se k odkazum anglickeho gotickeho romanu (Gothic Novel) 1 literarni vedci podrobne zkoumali jiz z mnoha aspektu. Zabyvali se napriklad jeho technikou vypraveni, jedinecnym vyuzitim konceptu casu nebo podklady, diky nimz spisovatel na strankach svych povidek a romanu podrobne zachytil historicke udalosti, jichz ovsem sam nebyl svedkem. Hlavnim cilem teto diplomove prace proto bylo nalezt dosud nezkoumane hledisko jeho tvorby. William Faulkner ve svych dilech zamerne pouziva (a casta dokonce ironizuje) nabozenske l a zejmena pak biblicke motivYI ktere jiz ve svych studiich rozebirali kuprikladu John V. Hagopian (Biblical Background of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalomf) 1 nebo Jesse McGuire Coffee (Faulkner's Un-Christlike Christians: Biblical Allusions in the Novels). Opakovane vyuziti krestanskeho motivu obeti a obetovani (sacrifice) ve Faulknerovych novelach zaujalo moji...