“He beat Flaubert, Stendhal, Baudelaire, de Beauvoir, Camus and Celine, and lost only to Proust. William Faulkner was the second most-cited author in a French magazine’s poll asking French writers to name their favourite books… Guardian columnist Agnes Poirier says ‘we love Faulkner because we consider him a revolutionary novelist – he experiments with narration like no other’.”