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Sto caricando le informazioni... On William Faulknerdi Eudora Welty
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Small, but what's here is choice. I give 'er both thumbs up. Briefly. Eudora Welty, like William Faulkner was born and raised in Mississippi. This book is a collection of her writings and talks about Faulkner and his writing. We read her review of [Intruder in the Dust], published in Hudson Review in 1949; an excerpt from "Looking at Short Stories", collected in Welty's [The Eye of the Story], on "The Bear"; and a review of Joseph Blotner's [Selected Letters of William Faulkner] that appeared in the NYT Book Review in 1977. We get the full text of her letter to The New Yorker poking a stick at Edmund Wilson for his unfavorable review of Intruder in the Dust. Following are some excerpts. First, from Welty's review of Selected Letters…:
In the same review, Welty cites a different sort letter from Faulkner:
From a speech—the Keynote Speech—that Welty presented at the Southern Literary Festival, held in 1965 at the University of Mississippi in Faulkner's hometown, we learn Faulkner's tale about writing [As I Lay Dying]:
Finally, here's a excerpt from her letter to The New Yorker, cited above. (You really must read the entire letter.) It appeared in the magazine's "Department of Amplification." In it, Miss Welty quotes from Wilson's review an excerpt ending: "Faulkner's provinciality, stubbornly cherished and turned into an asset, inevitably tempts him to be slipshod and has apparently made it impossible for him to acquire complete expertness in an art that demands of the artist the closest attention and care." She replies:
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Eudora Welty (1909-2001) and William Faulkner (1897-1962) were almost unquestionably Mississippi's leading literary lions during the twentieth century. Their influence on American literature is immeasurable. On William Faulkner brings together Welty's reviews, essays, lectures, and musings on Faulkner, including such gems as her reviews of Intruder in the Dust and The Selected Letters of William Faulkner, as well as her comments during her presentation of the Gold Medal to Faulkner during the National Institute of Arts and Letters awards ceremony in 1962. The collection also features an excerpt from a letter she wrote to the novelist Jean Stafford, telling of meeting Faulkner and of going sailing with him. Included too are Welty's impassioned defense of Faulkner's work-published as a letter to the New Yorker-and the obituary of the Nobel laureate that she wrote for the Associated Press. In addition, the book includes a cryptic postcard Faulkner wrote to Welty from Hollywood, plus six photographs, and a caricature of Faulkner drawn by Welty during the 1930s. Commenting on the place of both writers in contemporary literature, an essay by the noted literary scholar Noel Polk puts the collection in context and offers assessment and appreciation of their achievements in American literature. On William Faulkner is a valuable resource for exploring Faulkner's work and sensing Welty's critical voice. Her sharp critical eye and graceful prose make her an astute commentator on his legacy. William Faulkner is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, Sanctuary, As I Lay Dying, among others. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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"No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there. The writer offered it to us from the start, and when we didn't even want it or know how to take it and understand it; it's been there all along and is more than likely to remain. Read that."
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