![]() ![]() Early reception of the novel was mixed, with some reviewers critical of Faulkner's style and subject matter. ![]() By focusing on characters who are misfits, outcasts, or otherwise marginalized in their community, he portrays the clash of alienated individuals against a Puritanical, prejudiced rural society. ![]() In a loose, unstructured modernist narrative style that draws from Christian allegory and oral storytelling, Faulkner explores themes of race, sex, class, and religion in the American South. In a series of flashbacks, the story reveals how these two people are connected to another man who has deeply impacted both their lives. Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers on two strangers, a pregnant white woman and a man who passes as white but who believes himself to be of mixed ethnicity. It belongs to the Southern gothic and modernist literary genres. Light in August is a 1932 novel by the Southern American author William Faulkner. ![]()
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