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488 William Faulkner (with Carl Rollyson)

The History of Literature

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What's Your Favorite American?

"Fiction causes trouble. Fiction complicates the world," he says. "It lives in the flicker, as Conrad might say." Faulkner wanted to be an 'invisible author' who only wrote novels and left no other trace,. He once said that his ambition was to be quote, abolished and voided from history - leaving it markless.

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