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The Voice of Faulkner
http://gardenandgun.com/newsletter/voice-faulkner
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here are the recordings, courtesy of the University of Virginia. http://faulkner.lib.virginia.edu/browse |
Holy Cow! That is amazing and thank you for sharing this.
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http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/29/s...-him.html.html
not quite the same, but in the spirit of this thread. the link is to an article about an upcoming two hour documentary, Salinger, and an 800-page biography, The Private War of J. D. Salinger. there will be pictures that no one has seen, transcripts, and interviews with people that worked with him at The New Yorker. Quote:
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Anyone else HATE Catcher in the Rye?
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why didn't you like it?
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I don't like reading whole books in stream of consciousness, in dialect, and Gatsby was a book without a point. (And I say this as an avid reader who likes all sorts of things.) |
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It's conceivable I'm just biased about things I was forced to read.
But I found both Catcher and Gatsby to be novels without purpose, with relatively unlikeable protagonists and Gatsby in particular was vapid as hell. |
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As for Holden, I don't know that I ever liked him -- there were times I liked him, but I don't know that I'd want to spend too much time with him. But I did find him really interesting, and in some way, relatable. Part of what I found compelling about it was the realization that I was relating to a character I didn't necessarily like a lot. |
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i've been in the archive again seeing what all Faulkner had to say about what not. race relations (e.g. brown vs board of educ,) influences, character, and such. the most interesting bits, to me, are probably when Faulkner ends up touching on a lot of great authors. reading and hearing him touch briefly on Wolfe/Kerouac/Warren/Hemingway/Salinger/Joyce/Mann has been really cool. i wish there were more recordings of those guys or Twain or Alexander Graham Bell calling Thomas Edison and getting the first voice mail.
anyway, i just ran across one where he said something about Hemingway and Fitzgerald in an answer to a lady's question. it reminded me of MC's disdain for The Old Man and the Sea.http://faulkner.lib.virginia.edu/res...n&q=fitzgerald |
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footage of Mark Twain, filmed by Thomas Edison. the 2nd half shows Twain and his daughters, Clara and Jean. it's short, but cool.
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smar...e-to-prove-it/ |
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