William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist

Amid all that has been published about William Faulkner, one subject—the nature of his thought—remains largely unexplored. But, as Daniel Singal's new intellectual biography reveals, we can learn much about Faulkner's art by relating it to the cultural and intellectual discourse of his era, and much about that era by coming to terms with his art. Through detailed analyses of individual texts, from the earliest poetry through Go Down, Moses, Singal traces Faulkner's attempt to liberate himself fr...

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31 марта 2012
"On or about December 1910," declared Virginia Woolf, "human character changed." Historians tracing the origins of Modernist culture have quarreled with Woolf's exact choice of date, but they have increasingly come to agree that sometime around the turn of the century the intelligentsia in Europe and America began to experience a profound shift in sensibility that would lead to an explosion of creativity...

В этой увлекательнейшей литературоведческой и биографической работе автор подробно, последовательно и очень интересно прослеживает путь Фолкнера от классического викторианского окружения его семьи, родных и друзей, до ультра-модернистких романов, сделавших его знаменитым.
Чрезвычайно интересны и биографические данные, начиная с семейных преданий о деде, героя Гражданской войны, образ которого очень сильно повлиял на Фолкнера, и анализ творческого и личного пути писателя, от викторианства к модернизму.

Perhaps no other major American writer would struggle as hard as Faulkner did to become a Modernist,fighting to overcome the claims of family and region.

Рассмотрено также знакомство Фолкнера с психологическими изысканиями тех дней, с работами Фрейда, сильно на него повлиявшими:

In The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner began using Freudian concepts not only to get access to his characters at the unconscious level of their minds but also as tropes symbolizing larger trends within the culture.

Приход Фолкнера к Голливуду тоже очень логично объяснен и показан, как естественное продолжение его творческого и личностного развития:

Despite his many complaints over the years about Hollywood, the evidence indicates that it fulfilled his needs on many levels. These included the chance to escape his family and Oxford, engage in a glamorous occupation, explore a new medium that was rife with Modernist techniques such as montage, and, not least of all, pursue sexual adventures in a way that would have been impossible at home.

Интересная и умная книга о великом и редком писателе.
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