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DOCTOR MARTINO & OTHER STORIES
Publié en 1934, ce recueil rassemble quatorze histoires dont Faulkner réutilisera quelques-unes dans des livres ultérieurs. Ceci montre l'importance qu'il accorda à ce volume, le deuxième recueil de nouvelles qu'il publiait après Treize histoires. Livre composite, les récits traitent de la guerre aérienne de 14-18 ou apportent des témoignages recueillis au cours des grandes épreuves de l'histoire américaine, comme la guerre de Sécession. Souvent Faulkner, en grand virtuose, rehausse l'intrigue de terribles dénouements oniriques et invite le lecteur à découvrir les mystères qui l'obsèdent, portant sur le monde contemporain un regard étonné, critique et généreux.
- GenresShort Stories
346 pages, Hardcover
Published March 1, 1987
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William Faulkner
1,449 books10.9k followersWilliam Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.
Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury. The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade, he wrote Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a screenwriter, contributing to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, adapted from Raymond Chandler's novel. The former film, adapted from Ernest Hemingway's novel, is the only film with contributions by two Nobel laureates.
Faulkner's reputation grew following publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner, and he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel." He is the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Faulkner died from a heart attack on July 6, 1962, following a fall from his horse the month before. Ralph Ellison called him "the greatest artist the South has produced".
Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury. The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade, he wrote Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a screenwriter, contributing to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, adapted from Raymond Chandler's novel. The former film, adapted from Ernest Hemingway's novel, is the only film with contributions by two Nobel laureates.
Faulkner's reputation grew following publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner, and he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel." He is the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Faulkner died from a heart attack on July 6, 1962, following a fall from his horse the month before. Ralph Ellison called him "the greatest artist the South has produced".
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May 12, 2016
What a very odd collection. The title story seems like something cowritten by Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald. There is an early version of what would become much of the end of Absalom, Absalom! Called "Wash." Some of the stories, such as "Leg" and "Turn About" are connected to WWI and are pretty good. Then there are a couple of Civil War stories including "Mountain Victory" and two supernatural ones, "Beyond" and "Black Music," the later seemingly inspired some of John Buchan's ghost stories. Quite a variety and some of them certainly early works.
March 18, 2021
In 'Barn Burning', when the young son of Abner Snopes gives his name in court as 'Colonel Sartoris Snopes', the judge responds wryly with '"'Colonel Sartoris? I reckon anybody named for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help but to tell the truth can they?'" (p. 10). Only readers already familiar with Yoknapatawpha from Faulkner's other writings will understand what 'in this country' refers to and what social conflicts are embodied in a child named 'Colonel Sartoris' and 'Snopes' . These stories add to the complexity of Faulkner's writings, and the pleasure.
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