书名：Light In August 八月之光

作者：William Faulkner 

出版社名称：Vintage Classics

出版时间：2000

语种：英语

ISBN：9780099283157

商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：384（以实物为准）

《八月之光》出版于一九三二年，是福克纳代表作品之一，在作家所营造的“约克纳帕塔法世系”中占有重要位置。

故事主要分两条线索，一条讲的是克里斯默斯，他从小被送进孤儿院，因为被怀疑是“黑白混血儿”而从此失去了“身份”，受到社会种种虐待，*终促使他杀死了*后相遇的白种情人，自己也被白人处死；另一条讲的是农村姑娘莉娜与情人相恋，怀孕后遭到遗弃，徒步来到杰弗生镇寻找情人。 小说通过描述杰弗生镇十天的社会生活，揭示了几个主要人物的一生以及他们的家史，体现了人类“心灵深处的亘古至今的真实情感、爱情、同情、自豪、怜悯之心和牺牲精神”，表明了作家反对种族偏见和宗教偏见的态度。 这部小说以多重叙事角度和情节结构闻名。作家对小说文本的无限可能性进行了前卫性的试验。 《八月之光》是福克纳的代表作之一，在作家营造的“约克纳帕塔法世系”中占有重要位置。故事主要分两条线索。第1条线索是关于乔克里斯默斯的悲剧性故事。小说的另一条线索是关于莉娜格罗夫的喜剧性故事。小说通过描写杰弗生镇十天的社会生活，体现了人类“心灵深处的亘古至今的真实情感、爱情、同情，自豪、怜悯之心和牺牲精神”。

Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, mysterious drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry. Originally published in 1932.

威廉·福克纳（Willian Faulkner 1897～1962），美国小说家。他被西方文学界视作“现代的经典作家”。共写了19部长篇小说和70多篇短篇小说。其中绝大多数故事发生在虚构的约克纳帕塔法县，被称为“约克纳帕塔法世系”。这部世系主要写该县及杰弗生镇不同社会阶层的若干家庭几代人的故事。时间从独立战争前到第二次世界大战以后，出场人物有600多人，其中主要人物在他的不同作品中交替出现，实为一部多卷体的美国南方社会变迁的历史。其最著名的作品有描写杰弗生镇望族康普生家庭的没落及成员的精神状态和生活遭遇的《喧哗与骚动》；写安斯·本德仑偕儿子运送妻子灵柩回杰弗生安葬途中经历种种磨难的《在我弥留之际》；写一个有罪孽的庄园主塞德潘及其子女和庄园的毁灭性结局的《押沙龙，押沙龙！》；福克纳1949年获诺贝尔文学奖。

William Faulknerwas the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi,  He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film s cripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July1962.