Before we dig in with a new post on Sanctuary, I’d like to point out this interesting new publication of The Sound and the Fury (though we won’t be reading that famous novel this summer). This is, it seems, how Faulkner envisioned the text, though one wonders whether he ever imagined single copies of [...]
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Faulkner in Color
Posted in zz_Faulkner Summer on 18 July 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Faulkner Interviewed
Posted in zz_Faulkner Summer on 5 July 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book [...]
Nostalgia that borders on nausea
Posted in zz_Faulkner Summer on 2 July 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve already pointed to some of the Joyce/Faulkner connections we’ve been sensing. (I sensed it in AILD, too — not in the visions of landscape and time’s movement, as in “Emily,” but in the eerily present presentness [like it were in your own ear, though not you] of the inner voices. Novels as brains type of [...]
The Replacements
Posted in zz_Faulkner Summer on 29 June 2012 | 1 Comment »
Finished at a table at Pamplona under an umbrella drinking a ginger lemonade yesterday afternoon. I want to go right ahead—I mean, for the jugular—and ask about the final line of AILD. (If you haven’t yet finished the book, or’re planning on reading it sometime, forgive me.) The words are Anse’s, pa’s, come to us [...]
First Impressions: As I Lay Dying
Posted in zz_Faulkner Summer on 10 June 2012 | 2 Comments »
**Note: The discussion/comment section of Sarah’s terrific post on “A Rose for Emily” will stay open! “A Rose for Emily” is available for download here; if you haven’t read it yet, or have and haven’t yet joined our conversation, know that we’ll remain eager to discuss it throughout the summer and beyond!** The editors are [...]
Antiqued Silhouettes- “A Rose for Emily”
Posted in zz_Faulkner Summer on 3 June 2012 | 9 Comments »
Greetings from Louisiana! The state that first got Faulkner’s creative juices flowing. He met Sherwood Anderson in New Orleans and did not stop writing after that. Though he first thought he’d be a poet. To get my thoughts flowing I’ll begin with my experience reading the short story, “A Rose for Emily.” For starters, Josh, [...]
thoughts on the reading list
Posted in Housekeeping, zz_Faulkner Summer on 10 February 2012 | Leave a Comment »
To get in the mood, I first wrote this on a typewriter. One sure-fire way to channel Faulkner. A few notes have been requested on this reading list. Being no Faulknerian, just a big fan, I will do my best. –”A Rose for Emily” (1930): This early story is Gothic and gross, so I love [...]