Chris Calle: William Faulkner

Artist: Chris Calle
1961 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1987
Image Size: 11.625 by 14.375 inches
Overall Size: 20.375 by 23 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Cold Press Illustration Board

William Faulkner devoted his prodigious literary career to writing about the American South's desperate dilemma between racial antagonism and the painful evolution of southern society away from the old Southern "aristocracy" to a more integrated society. This fundamentally tragic theme appeared in more than twenty novels. Faulkner also created an original and distinctively "Southern" vocabulary in his work. His highly personal writing style evolved from his youth and upbringing. Born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, he grew up in a family whose genteel pre-Civil War heritage belied its ever-present poverty. He began his career as a novelist in 1926 with the publication of Soldier's Pay. A prolific -- though commercially unsuccessful writer, his publication of Sanctuary in 1931 finally brought Faulkner critical acclaim and financial success. And, after World War II, his works were receiving international recognition as well. The groundswell of praise for Faulkner's work culminated in a 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature. In his acceptance speech, he defined his role as a novelist: ". . . the writer's duty is to help man endure by lifting his heart ... by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past." Perhaps most illustrative of his visionary style and his theme of Southern decadence and racial inequality is his masterwork, The Sound and the Fury, published in 1929.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the U.S. 22¢ William Faulkner stamp issued August 3, 1987.

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