Essays, Speeches & Public Letters [Paperback]

William Faulkner (Author), James B. Meriwether (Editor)

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Modern Library; 2 edition (Feb 10 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 081297137X
ISBN-13: 978-0812971378
Product Dimensions: 13 x 2 x 20.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 386 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #921,616 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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“Those who care about the work of William Faulkner will be deeply grateful to Meriwether for putting Essays, Speeches & Public Letters together. . . . It will correct many errors [and] increase appreciation and understanding of [Faulkner’s] work.”
—George Garrett

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An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material.

This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay “On Criticism” and the beguiling “Note on A Fable.” It also contains eloquently opinionated public letters on everything from race relations and the nature of fiction to wild-squirrel hunting on his property. This is the most comprehensive collection of Faulkner’s brilliant non-fiction work, and a rare look into the life of an American master.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The First and Best Approach to Faulkner's Fiction, Feb 19 2006

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This review is from: Essays, Speeches and Public Letters. (Hardcover)

We now have back in print once again Faulkner's own words about crucial topics. This volume provides an excellent means to gauge the writer's thinking and should serve as an aid to good judgement. So much Faulkner criticism rides the pet hobby horses of the time and attempts to make Faulkner into the image of the critic. Reading his own words should be a counterbalance to such self-reflexive, myopic readings. The editor is the most scrupulous and best informed Faulkner scholar living today. It is a blessing that he edited this volume. Anything Faulkner wrote would be of interest, but some of these pieces stand right up there with his fiction. His "On Privacy" must take its place alongside the Nobel speech as one of the most important, prophetic documents of the century. "The American Dream---What Happened to It?" is a wonderful Southern critique of American materialism and false progress. Faulkner's understanding of the "word sounds" to which he saw Americans relegating the words freedom, liberty, and patriotism is as relevant today as when written 50 years ago. The volume has not dated with time. It's only gotten more incisive and as such is staggeringly impressive.

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