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 Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:19 pm
I'm in the midst of my English teacher's obsession with William Faulkner & honestly, I don't blame her.
He is absolutely amazing. I'm 118 pages in Light in August & we have already read his short stories of Barn Burning & A Rose for Emily.
He has a timeless grasp on how generations change & how the older generations view the newer ones & vise versa
Anyone else a fan or have read those stories & that novel?
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:51 pm
we had faulkner during high school.
oooh, a rose of emily is such a great short story heart very chilling~
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 4:34 pm
I studied Faulkner's Burning Barn last year in Lit. class. Ugh.
Maybe it was because it was just an awful translation [read it in Hebrew] but I just got so bored and frustrated I gave up.
Maybe I should give it a go in the original English before I vow to keep away from Faulkner. pirate
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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:19 pm
Faulkner is very big into Stream of Consciousness. He actually took some of the technique off of Fyodor Dostoevsky, a brilliant Russian author (my personal favorite).
It's very hard to follow at first, but it's very fun to read afterward.
I guess reading Hebrew isn't the best to read it in at first, but his stories are wonderful & universal
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