这些作品大多以“约克纳帕塔法县”为背景，展现了新旧更替时期美国南方社会的矛盾和冲突。
Most of his works, set in Yoknapatawpha County, unfold the contradictions and conflicts of the South in the turbulent times.
福克纳是美国“南方文学派”最重要的作家，其“约克纳帕塔法世系”小说是以南方为背景创造的。
William Faulkner, the most important of the South writers, set his Yoknapatawpha series of novels in the background of the Deep South of America.
因为他的短篇小说是好的，他们似乎总是在阈值被吸收到约克纳帕塔法传奇-矩阵，传说这是福克纳的真正的成就。
Good as his short stories are, they seem always at the threshold of being absorbed into the Yoknapatawpha saga - that legendary matrix which is Faulkner's real achievement.
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