Wherever American literature is concerned, William Faulkner is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He is the founder of American "southern literature" and one of the most influential modern novelists in the whole west. His representative works are the sound and the fury, light in August，Absalom，Absalom and so on. Faulkner grew up in the south of the United States. He successfully proposes two modern literary techniques: stream of consciousness and multiple perspectives.

He often talked about history and race. He tries to explain the present by looking back, especially by telling the story of generations of a family. He was very interested in the relationship between blacks and whites in the south. The sound and the fury is a famous novel by Faulkner. It has four parts. It tells a story of deterioration from the past to the present. The past is idealized to form a striking contrast with the loveless present. Go Down, Moses tells roughly the same story of moral injustice which, in Faulkner's opinion, poisoned southern civilization at the root.

Faulkner's attitude toward the "aristocratic" families of the south he describes is ambiguous. In addition to condemning their injustice toward African Americans, there are signs of sympathy or compassion. One of his famous short stories, "A Rose for Emily," is A good example of the complex emotions his work reveals. Faulkner is a difficult writer. Like all modern writers, he was demanding of his readers' cooperative response. There are a lot of inner monologues in his novels, and modern stream of consciousness is frequently and skillfully used. Words usually run together, no capitalization, no proper punctuation. Faulkner had a vivid imagination. His works take root in the deep south and create his own literary environment, trying to transcend the limitation of particularity and achieve universality through this environment. His novels with the most basic human nature and the basic mode of human behavior as the theme are one of the most enduring works in the history of world literature.

只要涉及到美国文学，威廉·福克纳就被普遍认为是二十世纪最伟大的作家之一。他是美国“南方文学”的奠基人，也是整个西部最有影响的现代小说家之一。代表作有《声与怒》、《八月之光》、《押沙龙》、《押沙龙》等。福克纳在美国南部长大。他成功地提出了两种现代文学手法：意识流和多重视角。

他经常谈论历史和种族。他试图通过回顾过去来解释现在，尤其是通过讲述一个家庭几代人的故事。他对南方黑人和白人之间的关系很感兴趣。《喧哗与骚动》是福克纳的一部著名小说。它有四个部分。它讲述了一个从过去到现在的堕落故事。过去被理想化，与没有爱的现在形成鲜明对比。在福克纳看来，《沉沦》和《摩西》讲述的是道德不公正的故事，而道德不公正从根本上毒害了南方文明。

福克纳对他所描述的南方“贵族”家庭的态度是模棱两可的。除了谴责他们对非洲裔美国人的不公正，也有同情或同情的迹象。他著名的短篇小说《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰》是他作品所揭示的复杂情感的一个很好的例子。福克纳是一位很难相处的作家。像所有现代作家一样，他要求读者做出合作的回应。他的小说中有大量的内心独白，现代意识流的运用也频繁而巧妙。单词通常连在一起，没有大写，没有适当的标点符号。福克纳有着丰富的想象力。他的作品扎根于南方腹地，创造了自己的文学环境，试图通过这种环境超越特殊性的局限，实现普遍性。他的小说以最基本的人性和最基本的行为方式为主题，是世界文学史上最经久不衰的作品之一。