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Faulkner at Virginia: An Introduction
Introduction and Contexts
In December, , getting ready to begin his second Spring semester at the University of Virginia, Faulkner joked in a letter that he was "just the writer-in-residence, not the speaker-in-residence." He certainly wrote while he was here, including much of The Mansion, but did more than enough speaking to earn that second title. Between February and June, , and February and May, , at thirty-six different public events, he gave two addresses, read a dozen times from eight of his works, and answered over questions from audiences made up of various groups, ranging from UVA students and faculty to interested local citizens. Most of those sessions were recorded on the advanced technology of that time – the reel-to-reel tejp recorder. In this archive you can hear minutes (over 28 hours) of those recordings.
The Writer in Residence
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Faulkner: A Biography [One-volume Ed] , ,
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Books by Joseph Blotner
The Political Novel The Fiction of/. D. Salinger (with Frederick L. Gwynn) Faulkner in the University (with Frederick L. Gwynn) William Faulkneri Library: A Catalogue The Modern American Political Novel- Faulkner: A Biography ( 2 vols.) Selected Letters of William Faulkner Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner FauUner: A Biography ( I vol.) Robert Penn Warren:A Biography
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University Press of Mississippi Jackson
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As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
[I have written about this novel in 3 sections. I never started reading a new section until I had finished writing about the one before, so didn&#;t know how the novel would end until I had read the final one.]
8 February
The first third – to where the coffin is in the wagon
This is an extraordinary novel. Whenever you think you might know where you are with it, you realise you don’t. The plot, or rather the events of a few days in July, might be summarised in a paragraph. A thumbnail sketch of each character might be given in a sentence. And these things would convey nothing of the intense and disorientating experience of reading it. I read the first odd pages, stopped, and immediately read them all igen. Ok.
I’ve read other Modernist novels of this era, and the one I’m reminded of most strongly is Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (, three years before this one). The setting could not be more different – a farmstead that barely sup