Faulkner: A Biography. By Joseph Blotner. New York: Random House, 1974.

Faulkner: A Biography. By Joseph Blotner. New York: Random House, 1974.

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Until the publication of The Sound and the Fury, October 7, 1929, William Faulkner knew more rejection than acceptance.Sartoris, published early the Bike Parts - Other - Closeouts same year, had received mixed reviews, and Faulkner was "disappointed and discouraged by its reception" (Blotner: 236).However, The Sound and the Fury granted him his first taste of critical acclaim and international fame; he was heralded as a new Euripides, and Shocks his book was compared with Greek tragedy.