Cycle 13 · 6 Feb 2025On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens- 1:05:31Immense novelist, despite reactionary traits of a man of the South.
Faulkner
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Summary
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#4 Harnessed to confinitude11 Apr 2020 · 31:33
- 2Aragon, “The Paris Peasant Sings”5 Aug 2023 · 16:44
- 3On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens6 Feb 2025 · 1:05:31
- 4#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)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.
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Who is this?William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) 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. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. […]
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Cycle 13 · 6 Feb 2025On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens
Series · 5 Aug 2023Aragon, “The Paris Peasant Sings”- 16:44A great American writer, even if one can find figures further to the left.
Cycle 11 · 9 Jul 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: the clash of worlds?- 1:41:59Among what he likes about the United States.
Cycle 10 · 24 Mar 2022#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)- 7:09The Sound and the FuryWriter with conservative leanings; this novel contains one of the finest hymns to negritude.
Cycle 7 · 11 Apr 2020#4 Harnessed to confinitude- 31:33The PriestOne of the wonders of the American South; one of his short stories was read by Gregory Protche.