#william faulkner (author)

[coolthingsguyslike]

#William Faulkner #pipe #author #writer #Southern

[theaskew]

Sanctuary, a novel by William Faulkner. (New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1931]. First edition, first printing.)

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[haveyoureadthispoll]

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members -- including Addie herself -- as well as others; the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic.

#book: as i lay dying #author: william faulkner #genre: classics #genre: southern gothic

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

William Faulkner

#William Faulkner #quotes #life #wisdom #art #literature #write #writer #author #driven by demons #demons #why

[kiarits]

William Faulkner, 1955

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[thinkingtidbits]

Get ready to be inspired with Thinking Tidbits as we explore the timeless wisdom of William Faulkner's quotes. Join us on a journey of motivation and life lessons that will uplift your spirits and ignite your passion. Dive into Faulkner's insightful words, filled with wisdom and inspiration for all aspects of life. Watch now and let these quotes illuminate your path to success and fulfillment! #WilliamFaulkner #MotivationalQuotes #LifeLessons #InspirationalQuotes #ThinkingTidbits #WisdomWednesday #QuoteOfTheDay #Inspire #quotes #quotesvideo #trending #viral #explore #wisdomquotes

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[litandlifequotes]

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

― William Faulkner

#william faulkner #writer #author #quote #words #reading

[theimpalatales]

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."

William Faulkner

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[batboyblog]

Public Domain Notice!

Happy Public Domain Day here in the USA!

today, January 1st 2023 marks the day all works published in the year 1927 enter the public domain! This includes books, movies and music.

Here are a few of the most famous and important works entering public domain today:

The final two Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. You likely have heard something about this, while the character of Sherlock Holmes has been public domain for many years a handful of stories in Conan Doyle's last collection of Holmes stories, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1927 remained under copy right. The famously litigious Conan Doyle Estate Ltd has used it's control of these copyrights to pressure movie, TV, and even authors to pay them when using the public domain character of Sherlock Holmes or adaptations of public domain stories. Well finally the last of their copyrights have finally run out and you can publish a collection of all 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories (and 4 novels) if you want, or use elements from these final stories in your own Sherlock Holmes story and the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd can finally go fuck itself.

speaking of detectives, the first 3 Hardy Boys novels, The Tower Treasure, The House on the Cliff, and The Secret of the Old Mill are also entering public domain, as such you are free to include Frank and Joe Hardy in your own work of fictions, but be careful to stick to their characterization from these first 3 books.

other exciting books entering the public domain today are, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Men Without Women (a short story collection) by Ernest Hemingway, The Big Four by Agatha Christie (big year for detectives huh?) Mosquitoes by William Faulkner, Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton, The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury, Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, Amerika by Franz Kafka

in terms of movies one of the most famous silent films ever made and one of the most visually iconic, Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang will reenter the Public Domain, The American copyright lapsed in 1953 making the film widely available and allowing for versions with material that had been cut from the 1927 version to be published in the 1970s and 80s. However under an international copyright agreement the film was returned to copyrighted status in 1996. But Today it's back back back again in the Public Domain!

Other exciting films entering the public domain are The Jazz Singer the very first "Talkie", Wings the very first Academy Award for best picture (or "outstanding picture" as it was then) The King of Kings directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Sunrise directed by F.W. Murnau (his first American film!) and The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog first first thriller directed by legendary director Alfred Hitchcock

the musical Show Boat by Oscar Hammerstein II will also enter the public domain with songs like Ol’ Man River, the musical Funny Face, and Good News with songs like Funny Face and The Best Things in Life Are Free, stand alone songs (I Scream You Scream, We All Scream for) Ice Cream, Puttin’ on the Ritz, Potato Head Blues, Gully Low Blues, East St. Louis Toodle-O, and Mississippi Mud will all be free to the public today

Finally a piece of Disney history is entering the public domain. Oswald The Lucky Rabbit first appeared in 1927 and will be free to appear in works of fiction this year, a year ahead of his younger brother Mickey Mouse

#Public Domain #Disney #oswald the lucky rabbit #Sherlock Holmes #the hardy boys #Metropolis

[natalieironside]

You may as well lean into being a weird and fantastic hillbilly b/c that's all you're ever going to be to a lot of these people. Much like John Grisham, William Faulkner (who won a Nobel Prize in literature), Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, and countless other notables down through the ages, I'll never really be an "author," because we're all cursed to only ever be an "author from Misssissippi." So you might as well have fun.

[centrally-unplanned]

Extreme charm from this Nabokov list of "reviews" of authors:

Melville, Herman. Love him. One would like to have filmed him at breakfast, feeding a sardine to his cat.

Tumblr-post worthy, 10/10.

Faulkner, William. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.

He's just like me fr fr

Joyce, James. Great. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. Let people compare me to Joyce by all means, but my English is patball to Joyce's champion game. A genius. I. Ulysses. A divine work of art. Greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose. Towers above the rest of Joyce's writing. Noble originality, unique lucidity of thought and style. Molly's monologue is the weakest chapter in the book. Love it for its lucidity and precision. II. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Never liked it. A feeble and garrulous book. III. Finnegans Wake. A formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book. Conventional and drab, redeemed from utter insipidity only by infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations. Detest it. A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory. Indifferent to it, as to all regional literature written in dialect. A tragic failure and a frightful bore.

I never complemented a human like this before in my life, and I never could, I tremble in fear of this complement

Freud, Sigmund. A figure of fun. Loathe him. Vile deceit. Freudian interpretation of dreams is charlatanic, and satanic, nonsense.

He's just like me fr fr!!!

Anyway its a list of great takes, like Nabokov always delivers - though I like Sarte & Camus myself.

#vladimir nabokov

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, September 25, we celebrate the birthday of acclaimed American author William Faulkner (1897-1962). Faulkner was born and spent most of his life in Mississippi. Influenced by his family history and the region of the American South where he resided, Faulkner began writing at a young age and published his first novel, Soldiers’ Pay, by his 29th birthday. Faulkner went on to become a prolific and well-received writer, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1954 and 1962, and has been called “the greatest artist the South has produced.”

Among our many Faulkner materials, we are excited to share this facsimile of Faulkner’s unpublished one-act play The Marionettes. The play has been described as a symbolist drama that poetically explores themes of desire, sexuality, growing old, life, and love. Faulkner wrote The Marionettes in 1920 during his association with the drama group at the University of Mississippi. The play was handwritten, illustrated, and bound by Faulkner and is considered a showy display of a young man early in his career.  

Our facsimile of the original manuscript was published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia in 1975 and printed in a limited edition of 126 copies at the Garamond Press in Baltimore, Maryland. It was created in memory of Linton R. Massey who was a figurehead of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and assembled and donated much of the University of Virginia’s Faulkner Collection through his personal friendship with William Faulkner.

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

#milestone monday #milestones #william faulkner #the marionettes #birthdays #bibliographical society of university of virgina #linton r. massey #manuscripts #Garamond Press #facsimiles

[papillon-de-mai]

Proust, Joyce, Faulkner, Rilke, Lawrence, Gide…one could go on citing author after author; the list is endless of those around whom thick encrustations of interpretation have taken hold. But it should be noted that interpretation is not simply the compliment that mediocrity pays to genius. It is, indeed, the modern way of understanding something, and is applied to works of every quality. Thus, in the notes that Elia Kazan published on his production of A Streetcar Named Desire, it becomes clear that, in order to direct the play, Kazan had to discover that Stanley Kowalski represented the sensual and vengeful barbarism that was engulfing our culture, while Blanche Du Bois was Western civilization, poetry, delicate apparel, dim lighting, refined feelings and all, though a little the worse for wear to be sure. Tennessee Williams’ forceful psychological melodrama now became intelligible: it was about something, about the decline of Western civilization. Apparently, were it to go on being a play about a handsome brute named Stanley Kowalski and a faded mangy belle named Blanche Du Bois, it would not be manageable.

— Susan Sontag, from "Against Interpretation"

#susan sontag #sontag #lit #literature #against interpretation #proust #joyce #faulkner #rilke #lawrence #gide #hermeneutics #art #a streetcar named desire #elia kazan

[mystiqueghost]

—to commemorate the beginning of a new month, here's a collection of my favorite quotes about august. authors are listed in order: Denise Levertov, Ingeborg Bachmann, Listy Tamtego Lata, Carlie Hoffman, Sara Baume, Alex Dimitrov, William Faulkner, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton

#poetry #slyvia plath #poets and writers #webs

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Favourite writers?

I have so many and not enough time to read!! Actually this may sound absurd but lately I’ve been thinking that the concept of a “writer” is so steeped in modernity when really it’s not the name of the simple humans who spin the fables who are important.

We remember not the human authors of the Egyptian & Tibetan Books of the Dead, the Bhagavad Gita, the Kabbalah, the Quran, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Bible etc. But instead we remember the content of these higher texts and that the human is a humble vessel for greater and sacred ideas which transcend beyond the petty ego and flesh.

But sorry my crazed pedantism aside, I do have certain authors I love returning to time and time again. I like the Brontë Sisters, Aldous Huxley, Flannery O’Connor, Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, the Marquis De Sade (he’s fucked but his writing style is flowery), Oscar Wilde, Percy & Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Homer, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Amrita Pritam, Rene Guenon, Goethe, Jim Thompson, Schopenhauer, Faulkner, Philip K. Dick, Emily Dickinson, Sappho, Catullus, Euripides, Orwell, Suetonius, Shakespeare, HG Wells, Tennessee Williams, James M. Cain, Poe, Camus, Bret Easton Ellis, Malcolm X & Jim Morrison.

I know it’s a weird list but I tried to include only authors who I’ve read several works by and whose works actually moved me as a human being and English major 💗 I enjoy all types of books but my fave genres within fiction are noir detective, philosophical, gothic romance, science fiction & horror novels.

[stastrodome]

Fun Facts. 100% verified.

The second most popular pizza topping (after pepperoni) in Iowa is corn fritters.

The three islands in the South Pacific that were owned by Marlon Brando went on to form their own nation, Marlonia.

Franklin Pierce was the last President of the United States who spoke no English.

On a telethon broadcast in 1981, Marie Osmond sang "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" with Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner once taught a bear how to smoke a pipe.

#william faulkner #marie osmond #you don't bring me flowers #franklin pierce #marlon brando #Iowa #corn fritters #Tyler Texas #houston texas