Barn Burning

This article is about the William Faulkner story. For the 1980 short film adaptation, see Barn Burning (film). For the Haruki Murakami story, see The Elephant Vanishes § "Barn Burning".
"Barn Burning"
Short story by William Faulkner
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publication
Published inHarper's Magazine
Publication dateJune 1939

"Barn Burning" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Harper's in June 1939 (pp. 86–96) and has since been widely anthologized. The story deals with class conflicts, the influence of fathers, and vengeance as viewed through the third-person perspective of a young, impressionable child.[1][2] It precedes The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion, the three novels that make up Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.[3]

It was reprinted in A Rose for Emily and Other Stories, Collected Stories of William Faulkner, The Faulkner Reader, and Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner.[4]

  1. ^ Billingslea, Oliver (1991). "Fathers and Sons: The Spiritual Quest in Faulkner's". The Mississippi Quarterly. 44 (3). Mississippi State University: 287–308. ISSN 0026-637X. JSTOR 26475157.
  2. ^ Skei, Hans H. (1999). Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories. University of South Carolina Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-57003-286-8. OCLC 1022611409.
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  4. ^ A. Nicholas Fargnoli; Michael Golay; Hamblin, Robert W. (2009). Critical Companion to William Faulkner: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. Infobase Publishing. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-4381-0859-9. OCLC 1109200239.