(New York: Smith & Haas, 1932) is the seventh of William Faulkner’s nineteen novels and the fifth of fourteen that he set primarily in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the apocryphal town and county he created in his fiction. Though his longest novel, it took him only six months to write, from mid-August, 1931, to mid-February, 1932, and another month to complete the typescript he sent to his agent [Joseph Blotner,

(1991), 280, 302]. Though

, like

, may appear to be a more conventional novel than

and

, Faulkner’s extensive experiments in multiple first-person narration, the novel’s unconventional plot, convoluted structure, and complex chronologies have posed considerable…

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Citation: Meats, Stephen E.. "Light in August". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 December 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3966, accessed 25 November 2024.]