Faulkner

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions William Faulkner briefly but repeatedly between 2020 and 2025. Each time, he ranks him among the great American writers. He counts him among the "wonders" of the American South, in connection with a short story, The Priest, read by Gregory Protche during a lockdown session1. He also names him among the things he loves about the United States. He calls him an "immense American writer"2, and later an "immense novelist"3. This admiration comes with a political reservation that he repeats: Faulkner has "conservative sides"4 and the reactionary sides of a Southern man3, and one can find writers further to the left2. This reservation does not lessen his literary judgment. In The Sound and the Fury, he even points to one of the finest hymns to négritude4. In these passages, he does not develop his reading of the work any further.

1. 1#4 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude11 Apr 2020 · 31:33
2. 2Aragon « Le paysan de Paris chante » - Lectures sur le vif5 Aug 2023 · 16:44
3. 3De l'anti-soviétisme des khmers rouges-vert6 Feb 2025 · 1:05:31
4. 4#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022 · 7:09

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.