![]() ![]() “Faulkner’s preoccupation with mortality,” Honeini then argues, “can be interpreted as his deliberate authorial attempt to evade and deny his own death by achieving immortality through the lasting creation of literary art” (1). The main impulse for writing, Faulkner claimed, would stem from a “selfish” desire to “lift up man’s heart for his own benefit because in that way he can say No to death” (Faulkner, 2004 181). The book opens with several extracts from interviews in which Faulkner emphasized the correlation between the ephemeral lifespan of men and the permanence of works of art. ![]() ![]() 1 Ahmed Honeini’s William Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound, is adapted from a PhD thesis defended in 2018 at Royal Holloway, University of London. ![]()
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