André Bleikasten, William Faulkner: A Life Through Novels

“Pour les jeunes en France, Faulkner c’est un dieu.” These were allegedly the words of Jean–Paul Sartre, conveyed to William Faulkner by the critic and editor Malcolm Cowley in 1945, at a time when all Faulkner’s works, except Sanctuary (1931), were out of print in the United States (The Faulkner–C...

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Главный автор: Yamamoto, Yuko
Формат: Article ou chapitre numérique
Язык:Anglais
Опубликовано: Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 2024
Online-ссылка:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Итог:“Pour les jeunes en France, Faulkner c’est un dieu.” These were allegedly the words of Jean–Paul Sartre, conveyed to William Faulkner by the critic and editor Malcolm Cowley in 1945, at a time when all Faulkner’s works, except Sanctuary (1931), were out of print in the United States (The Faulkner–Cowley File. Viking, 1966, 24). That Faulkner was first praised in France is by now a well–known fact. Since Maurice Edgar Coindreau presented Faulkner’s two earliest short stories, “Septembre arden...