Faulknerian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Faulknerian
Example Sentences
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The brilliant concept was to use the two stories to inform each other, letting the Faulknerian past that is “not even past” intrude upon the present.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2021
In her Midwestern hands, the Faulknerian style was reborn, no longer choking on its own truth, race and the legacy of slavery no longer pushed below the surface.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2019
I had to fight a sense of creeping claustrophobia as I read it, and its Faulknerian sentences, which can run on for half a page or more, sometimes felt like a literary endurance test.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2019
I like that it’s set in the South—in Mississippi—but isn’t “Southern” in the traditional sense of Southern—that is, Faulknerian or O’Connor-ish.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
But the boys of Sigma Alpha Epsilon are Faulknerian prisms compared to the female characters in “Straight Flush.”
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2013
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