Un placer,
@Aben Razín
Son varias horas de audio repartidas en entrevistas, discursos, conferencias, etc.
También hay fotos, artículos en prensa en relación con Faulkner como "escritor residente" en la Universidad de Virginia.
Hay información y datos para dedicar horas y horas.
En el primer extracto puedes ver su opinión sobre
El ruido y la furia. El que más quería de los suyos.
En el segundo puedes ver que 21 años después (en 1957) no se acordaba muy bien de los detalles de
Absalón, Absalón!, escrita en 1936.
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Unidentified participant: Mr. Faulkner, what do you consider your best book?
William Faulkner: The one that—that failed the most tragically and the most splendidly. That was
The Sound and the Fury—the one I worked at the longest, the hardest, that was to me the—the most passionate and moving idea, and made the most splendid failure. That's the one that's my—I consider the best, not—well, best is the wrong word—
that's the one that I love the most.
Unidentified participant: I wanted to ask something about [that]. Was it very difficult to write the stream-of-consciousness [part of] Benjamin?
William Faulkner: No, no. Not—not once I understood Benjy and understood the story. It was very simple, very easy.
Unidentified participant: That's such a difficult part to understand unless someone shows you —
William Faulkner: No, it was very easy to do. That's probably why it's so hard to read. I think anything that is easy to do is—is per se probably bad [audience laughter], but I couldn't think of any better way to tell about Benjy. I was trying to tell a story. I tried that way. That wasn't enough. I tried with Quentin. That wasn't enough. I tried with Jason. That still wasn't enough. And then I tried Faulkner and that still wasn't enough. [audience laughter] It still failed, and that's why I love it.
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Joseph Blotner: In
Absalom, Absalom!, when Shreve and Quentin are reconstructing the story for each other, they set up a lawyer who was directing the campaign of Charles's mother to gain revenge against Sutpen. Was there really a lawyer, do you think, or is it just a product of their imagination as they reconstructed the story?
William Faulkner: I'm sorry, I don't remember that.
Joseph Blotner: They speak about the man who was counseling Charles's mother in trying to get back at Sutpen.
William Faulkner: There probably was a lawyer.
I don't remember that book, but yes, yes, there was a lawyer. That sounds too logical in Mississippi terms. Yes, he was—there would have been lawyer there.