"Rage",
"Long Walk", "Road Works" and others were published. In
1982, The Shooter appeared – the first novel from the Dark Tower cycle, which
he had been creating for twenty years. In the same year, the novel "The
Running Man" was written in just 10 days. In the 90s, "The Green
Mile", "A Bag of Bones" and a lot of other well-known and less
well-known works appeared.
"The King of Horror", he works in various
genres: in addition to horror, he writes fiction, detective stories, mysticism,
drama, thrillers… And film adaptations of his works follow endlessly one after
another, these are feature films and television productions, including the
script of the famous series "The X-Files".
But King is not just the author of "horror
stories", he is a really great writer. In his books, the sharpness of
thought is combined with a vivid style, the denunciation of human stupidity
with a protest against violence and cruelty. Horror for him is always a
competition between the normal
and the abnormal, in which the normal becomes dominant
in the final. King has many literary awards. The US
National Prize for the Arts was given to him with the
wording "for combining fascinating stories with an analysis of human
nature."
And on June 19, 1999, trouble happened. King gets into
a car accident and gets numerous injuries. The writer, he will describe this
event later in his memoirs. In 2002, King announced that due to health problems
he was forced to break with literary work forever. Fortunately, he did not keep
his promise.
Stephen King continues to create today. To date, more
than 350 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide.
In 2022, Stephen King spoke out
against Russia's aggression in Ukraine and refused to republish his books in
Russia.
125th anniversary of
the birth
of William Faulkner
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The
boy, whom Murray's parents Charles Faulkner and Maud Butler named William
Cuthbert, was born on September 25, 1897 in the city of New Albany, which
belonged to the American state of Mississippi. The child got acquainted with
literature early and learned to read and write before entering school.
Fascinated by the history of Mississippi, he dropped
out of school and began to dream of repeating the fate of the famous
great-grandfather, a former writer, colonel and hero of the Civil War. These
interests were shared by Faulkner's older friend Phil Stone, who received a
bachelor's degree from Yale University and was several years older than the
young man. Following the advice of a learned friend, William began taking
courses at a higher education institution in the district and joined the Sigma
Alpha
Epsilon fraternity.
The organization, imbued with an atmosphere of
creativity, prompted the new member to show ingenuity, and in order not to get
out of the team, the 17year-old young man began composing poetry.
Stone, who was the first reader of the early works,
highly appreciated the talent of his friend and turned to several publishers
who did not consider the work suitable for printing.
This attitude prompted the young Faulkner to give up
literature for a while and enlist in the reserve part of the Air Force in
Canada in 1918. But by this time the First World War was over, and the young
man was forced to return home. Under the patronage of his father, who was in
charge of the administrative affairs of the University of Mississippi, the
retired flight school was taken back to the courses and, despite mediocre
academic performance, was invited to be published in the student newspaper.
In 1919, the American edition of
The New
Republic printed
Faulkner's early work, and 5 years later a
collection of poems entitled "Marble Faun" was published. But by this
time, the aspiring writer had already moved away from poems and, on the advice
of the short story writer Sherwood Anderson, began work on the novels
"Soldier's Reward" and "Mosquitoes".
In 1927, Faulkner conceived a series of novels set
in the fictional Yoknapatoof County, and wrote the first work, Flags in the
Dust. But, contrary to expectations, this story, imbued with the traditions and
spirit of the American South, did not please the editors and only in 1929 was
completely revised and published under the name
"Sartoris".
Devastated
by this attitude to his own book, the author decided to start experimenting
with style and created 3 stories about the younger generation of the Compson
family. After some time, the described events formed into a single narrative
and eventually became a full-fledged novel "Noise and Fury", which
expressed an innovative approach to language and literature.
But the first readers did not understand the author's
idea, and a truly great novel was appreciated only in 1932.
On the wave of success, William published a collection
of short stories "Thirteen", which included
"A Rose
for Emily", "Red
Leaves", "Evening Sun" and "Dry
September", which painted pictures of racial injustice and moral
oppression common in some areas of his native country.
Contemporaries considered Faulkner's most famous
work to be the novel "Light in August", written and published in
1932. Other equally famous works of Faulkner are the late novels "Absalom,
Absalom!", "Defiler of Dust", "City" and
"Mansion", which allowed the author to become a Nobel Prize winner in
literature and became the best "southern" books of all time.
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