Yoknapatawpha

films, including A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Five years before Hemingway, another American novelist had won the Nobel Prize: William Faulkner (1897-1962). Faulkner managed to encompass an enormous range of humanity in Yoknapatawpha, a Mississippi county of his own invention. He recorded his characters' seemingly unedited ramblings in order to represent their inner states -- a technique called "stream of consciousness." (In fact, these passages are carefully crafted, and their

Amériques irréconciliables. Si Carl Sandburg a voulu écrire une poésie de la vie moderne, de la ville et de la machine, de la démocratie américaine au xxe siècle, beaucoup ont au contraire choisi l'Amérique du passé, comme Faulkner dans son comté de Yoknapatawpha, où il voit d'un œil soupçonneux la montée des Snopes, ou Steinbeck lorsqu'il s'attendrit sur une Californie d'opérette où l'on côtoie de bons clochards et des prostituées généreuses. Mais ce choix devient de plus en plus illusoire, car le monde

universities, he always returned home to Mysore. His works are set in the fictional town of Malgudi, partly based on Mysore, but with its own characteristics. His fictional setting has often been compared to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex or William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, but Narayan claimed that he simply invented a town he could mold to the needs of his stories without needing to do research. It is a quintessential small South Indian city, big enough to have a variety of petty industries and a wide variety