ПОЛКОВНИК УИЛЬЯМ КЛАРК ФОЛКНЕР: НА ПУТИ К КОНСОЛИДАЦИИ СЕВЕРА И ЮГА

Te article studies the life and work of William Clark Faulkner (1825-1889), the greatgrandfather of the famous writer. It examines how much of the real Southern Colonel-Cavalier is reflected in the legend and to what extent his fgure is mythologized. We compare the real Colonel with the characters of W.K. Faulkner’s books. Te main work of Colonel Faulkner as a writer is the novel “Te White Rose of Memphis”, which became a bestseller in the South. Te genre peculiarity of the novel “Te White Rose of Memphis” is considered typical of Southern prose, with allusions to works by Walter Scott, W. Shakespeare and W.G. Simms, the main novelist of the South of the 19th century. In the focus of the article is the ideological content of the novel, the transformation of the canons of the Southern Chevalier’s image. Remaining formally faithful to them, Faulkner breaks with it ideologically, presenting a new type of a hero who abandons the outdated in the new unifed America Code of Honor of the Southern Cavalier. Combining the virtues traditionally attributed to the North (practicality, business mind, calculation) and the South (courage, generosity, benevolence), the new hero is able to reconcile hostile ideologies.