Variation of Narrator and Narrative Perspective: From Balzac to Faulkner

Balzac is a great realistic giant in 19th century Europe,while Faulkner is one of the most important modernist writers.With Balzac as an object of reference,this paper elaborates the narrator and narrative perspective strategies which Faulkner employed in his modernist novels and his innovation to the conventional mode of narration,and finally explicates what such approaches signify.