Faulkner in Paris, 1925 Picture from: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/faulkner_william/paris.html I shall avoid rehashing too many my own thoughts and ideas already presented orally, but heres a recap: Faulkner shows us just how useless reading is by destroying the narrative (the story is less and less about Addie and more and more about individual motivations); Anse cares more for his teeth, Dewey Dell is concerned with her pregnancy, Vardaman wants to see the red train, and so on
thus destroying the ability and/or the integrity of the narrator (see Darl finally lose it on page 1627, and see the conversation between Dewey Dell and Anse on page 1573)
and thus attacking words (see page 1596, last paragraph), only action and emotion matter(?) (to hear just how pointless words can be, once more read the conversation between Dewey Dell and Anse on page 1573). A genealogy of the Bundren family can be had at: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/gen-bundren.html The authoritative page from which I found most of my factaul information on Faulkner is: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html | |
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