![]() In the decade and a half since then, the issues of race and history so central to Faulkner’s work have grown only more urgent. ![]() Some literary critics hailed Winfrey for bringing William Faulkner back into popular consciousness others challenged any notion of recovery or revival, asking whether he had ever really gone away. The Faulkner trilogy quickly rose to the No. Oprah’s website posted short videotaped lectures by three literature professors to assist readers in making sense of the writer’s notoriously demanding prose. The coming months would be, she proclaimed, a “Summer of Faulkner,” focused on three of his novels- As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, and Light in August, available in a special 1,100-page box set weighing in at two pounds. ![]() I n June 2005, Oprah Winfrey announced a surprising choice as the 55th selection for her influential book club. William Faulkner and his wife, Estelle, stand outside their home, in Oxford, Mississippi, in the spring of 1955. ![]()
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