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Sto caricando le informazioni... New Orleans Sketchesdi William Faulkner
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The short and very short stories in this collection are Faulkner's first published works of prose, from 1925, and they are quite uneven. "Out of Nazareth" is an homage to "David," a 17-year-old hobo ("I have no destination. Why should I hurry?") who gives the narrator a sample of his writing, quoted in its entirety. Can this be said to foreshadow Faulkner's encouragement to young writers in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech of 1950? "The Liar" demonstrates Faulkner's extraordinary ear for the dialects of rural Southern whites, with a surprise twist on the power of lying. Other stories like "Jealousy" are powerfully written, but "Country Mice" is a strange tale about bootleggers and a biplane, and "Yo Ho and Two Bottles of Rum" is racist: superficially anti-Chinese, but deeply anti-British-lower-class. Despite the title, there is very little in *New Orleans Sketches* about New Orleans culture and traditions. The racetrack touts, petty criminals and tough cops could have inhabited any city of the 1920's. The stories were first published in the New Orleans *Times-Picayune*. The even shorter "sketches" are from the New Orleans literary magazine *The Double Dealer*. Editor Carvel Collins, a professor at Notre Dame, re-collected them and amplified on them with a preface. He added a short essay by Faulkner on the works of Sherwood Anderson, originally published in 1925 in the Dallas *Morning News*. The essay contains surprisingly blunt criticism, given Anderson was an important mentor and friend of Faulkner. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry ( The Marble Faun ), had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the University of Mississippi student newspaper. He had served a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Corps and while working in a New Haven bookstore had become acquainted with the wife of the writer Sherwood Anderson. In his first six months in New Orleans, where the Andersons were living, Faulkner made his initial foray into serious fiction writing. Here Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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