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The Ambivalence of the Past in Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury and Marquez's Leaf Storm

John Mcniff

Discipline: Literature, Cultural Studies

 

Abstract:

Gabriel Marquez looked to William Faulkner for his model in his delineation of Macondo. Like Yoknapatawpha it becomes a microcosm of a ravished world whose past is as much a crippling burden as a precious heritage. This symbolic usage of time can dearly be seen in Marquez's Leaf Storm and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.