#Yoknapatawpha

[yukalipaginaliteraria]

INCENDIAR ESTABLOS, de William Faulkner. Autora: Silvia Sánchez Muñoz

                                   Incendiar Establos, un relato de William Faulkner Por un lado, el chico -o chiquillo, también llamado Sartry o Sartoris Snopes-, cuyo cuerpo pequeñajo para su edad como era, menudo y nervudo debe enfrentarse a todas las maldades, miserias y rencores a los que su padre lo arrastra, a él y al resto de su familia: un hermano que masca tabaco sin parar, sombra…

[natalieironside]

"Where are you from?"

"Mississippi, around Vicksburg."

"Where's that at?"

"It's near Utica, Port Gibson, across the river from Tallulah."

"Wuh?"

"I'm from fucking Yoknapatawpha County alright I was born in a cypress slough and went to school at a catfish farm and my mom is Faith Hill and my dad is BB King and I can't read and I eat cotton for breakfast and someday I'm gonna go join my grandpappy in that big trailer park in the sky"

[stickthisbig]

Sooo the biggest positive news in my life right now: I came out as nonbinary at work!

I had a whole thing here but it got really personally identifiable. Read more instead.

Anyway the upshot is that while some people in my organization have known since like 2019, my supervisor and our boss found out (with my consent) I guess about 6 months ago? And I finally couldn't take it anymore, so I ended up coming out to my boss. I've been really nervous about it and not really knowing how things would go, because I live in a very conservative area and my boss, even though he is very liberal, is a very religious person.

But we were at an event, and the only other openly non-binary person in our organization referred to me as they, and I had this moment of, oh I could have this all the time, and it wouldn't feel like a knife was being stuck in my ear all day.

So I came out! My boss was super supportive, and he would have been totally behind me if I had wanted to make an announcement or put my pronouns in my email signature or whatever. Honestly I felt really valued and really respected? And I'm really grateful that this is what happened.

So here are my two main takeaways:

1. I was going to say that I am very lucky that this is what happened, and I am very lucky. I live in a very conservative area, and many employers, including other organizations like mine, would have just found a way to fire me. But the reason that it happened like it did was really because I have maintained a commitment to being as authentic as possible. When I started it was still legal for an employer to fire you for being queer. (We are also an at will state, so you can get fired for literally anything, but we're all given additional protections.) I refused to go to work for an employer where I couldn't be out. And I am lucky that such an employer still exists in this area, but I'm the one who made this happen.

2. I didn't know how much being misgendered upset me until I wasn't as much anymore. I knew that I didn't like it, but the psychic weight of hearing myself referred to incorrectly over and over every day was just so much worse than I thought it was. I was so upset about it that I was trying to convince myself that I had never been nonbinary the first place, but it turns out that when people like actually respect your personhood, shit gets way easier. I've found it also it stops misgendering outside of work from hurting so badly? I am a workaholic, it is just part of my personality, I will find a way to do it no matter where I work, I spend way more time with my coworkers than my friends or my family. Having that space where I can just sort of breathe for a minute has really helped me handle the fact that like I will probably never be able to gender myself correctly in front of our partner organizations. What do I care if the Yoknapatawpha County Board of Supervisors calls me ma'am, they suck out loud anyway.

So I literally never thought I was going to reach this point, but I am so glad that I did, and despite the fact that I feel not great because of a bunch of other stuff that's going on, that piece of it has made my burdens just a little bit lighter. A+ do recommend even if it takes you 5 years

[ilcercatoredicolori]

Pecchiamo insieme

che all'anima fa bene.

(Su un muro a Yoknapatawpha)

[alittleivy]

when Rory Gilmore said, "I live in two worlds, one is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, and danced at the Jellicoe Ball. I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm a citizen of Stars Hollow, the most magical place on Earth. I've wrestled with the likes of Kirk, danced with Miss Patty, and sang with the town troubadour. I've lived on a street with the most colorful characters you will ever find. Yes, I have many friends, but my biggest fear is that I'll turn out like one of those Tana French novels, where nothing is ever really resolved and everyone just goes on living their messed-up lives. So I've learned to settle. Settle for the fact that I'll never know what happened to the Romanovs. Settle for the fact that if I ever have kids, they won't know what it's like to grow up with a father. Settle for the fact that my best friend is a woman who's been dead for 40 years. Settle for the fact that I've spent the last 16 years watching backup dancers become stars and pop stars become drug addicts. And I've learned to settle for a life that will never be half as extraordinary as the one I've imagined." It was a beautiful and memorable speech! 💌

[alliluyevas]

re: last night's discussion of classic lit/assigned readings/Reading Faulkner...I do want to read Absalom, Absalom sometime in the near future but I am also interested in reading some critical analysis on Faulkner's work. I obviously have my own thoughts but there's also been a ton of really interesting scholarship including a few books I've flagged for myself that sound really promising. For instance:

Faulkner, Mississippi by Edouard Glissant

In 1989, while teaching literature in Louisiana, the Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant visited Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi. His visit spurred him to an original and powerful reappraisal of Faulkner's work. Like Faulkner's literary descendants in the United States, Glissant is fascinated by the stories of Yoknapatawpha County and disturbed by the author's equivocations about the racism there. Glissant, however, stands in a distinctive relation to Faulkner and his county: as a black Martinican, he is descended from slaves; as a native French speaker, he first encountered the great novelist's work in translation. Faulkner, Mississippi is a distinctive look at an American icon by a writer deeply involved in the issues of Faulkner's work. Glissant sees the racial complexities of Faulkner as the key to his influence in the next century, and presents Faulkner as the progenitor of Flannery O'Connor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, and Toni Morrison, who all write fiction in which the characters are implicated in a single multiracial calamity. He exhorts the reader to "Look him straight in the eyes, the son of the slave and the son of the slave owner" -- and Glissant's own clear-eyed gaze makes this book a revelation about the work of one of our greatest but still least-understood writers.

The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War by Michael Gorra

How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America’s most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation’s history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such iconic novels as Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury, creating in Yoknapatawpha County the richest gallery of characters in American fiction, his achievements culminating in the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. But given his works’ echo of “Lost Cause” romanticism, his depiction of black characters and black speech, and his rendering of race relations in a largely unreconstructed South, Faulkner demands a sobering reevaluation. Interweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism, and rich travelogue, The Saddest Words recontextualizes Faulkner, revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today.

William Faulkner and Southern History by Joel Williamson

Indeed, to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other major twentieth-century novelist, Faulkner remained at home and explored his own region--the history and culture and people of the South. Now, in William Faulkner and Southern History , one of America's most acclaimed historians of the South, Joel Williamson, weaves together a perceptive biography of Faulkner himself, an astute analysis of his works, and a revealing history of Faulkner's ancestors in Mississippi--a family history that becomes, in Williamson's skilled hands, a vivid portrait of Southern culture itself. Williamson provides an insightful look at Faulkner's ancestors, a group sketch so brilliant that the family comes alive almost as vividly as in Faulkner's own fiction. Indeed, his ancestors often outstrip his characters in their colorful and bizarre nature. Williamson has made several the Falkners (William was the first to spell it "Faulkner") were not planter, slaveholding "aristocrats"; Confederate Colonel Falkner was not an unalloyed hero, and he probably sired, protected, and educated a mulatto daughter who married into America's mulatto elite; Faulner's maternal grandfather Charlie Butler stole the town's money and disappeared in the winter of 1887-1888, never to return. Equally important, Williamson uses these stories to underscore themes of race, class, economics, politics, religion, sex and violence, idealism and Romanticism--"the rainbow of elements in human culture"--that reappear in Faulkner's work. He also shows that, while Faulkner's ancestors were no ordinary people, and while he sometimes flashed a curious pride in them, Faulkner came to embrace a pervasive sense of shame concerning both his family and his culture. This he wove into his writing, especially about sex, race, class, and violence, psychic and otherwise. William Faulkner and Southern History represents an unprecedented publishing event--an eminent historian writing on a major literary figure. By revealing the deep history behind the art of the South's most celebrated writer, Williamson evokes new insights and deeper understanding, providing anyone familiar with Faulkner's great novels with a host of connections between his work, his life, and his ancestry.

I think all of these books sound really interesting and would provide new critical lenses with which to analyze the books :)

[barnbridges]

assigning tsh characters faulkner works, because im nothing in my soul if not delusional:

richard - absalom absalom, the mansion henry - sartoris/flags in the dust camilla - rose for emily, sartoris charles - quentin's section of tsaf, requiem for a nun, the hamlet francis - he'd get hatecrimed in yoknapatawpha bunny - benjy's section of tsaf, the mansion

[yellowmanula]

Garbate mierzeje w krainie Yoknapatawpha,

ogień rozpalony na piasku. Dym tworzy dzwonowatą pajęczynę,

sznurki między drzewami trzepoczą makatkami,

za moment usnę. Przyśnią mi się szczątki Słońca photo made by me :)

[grandhotelabyss]

Thoughts on the great multivolume modernist works like Proust’s Remembrance, The Man Without Qualities, Joseph and his Brothers, (possibly others I’m forgetting)?

Feminists will say you've forgotten Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage.

My thoughts are these: as a geriatric Millennial member of "the MTV generation," I have a ravaged attention span and don't do well with multivolume works. I did a volume and a half of Proust, a volume of Richardson, and have not yet embarked on Musil or Mann. I own a big one-volume '40s or '50s hardcover edition of Joseph and His Brothers and am looking forward to it since I've been reading that other multivolume masterpiece, the Bible, lately.

Re: Proust, I have to confess I didn't fall in love with Swann's Way when I read it, surprisingly given the raptures Proust inspires in other people, certainly nothing like the way I fell in love with Ulysses or The Magic Mountain, the former before I even understood a word of it.

Finally, in my defense, Joyce's Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses also form a multivolume modernist work, and I've read those three or four times each (more for Dubliners, because I used to teach it). Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga, too, of which I've read at least the major books from The Sound and the Fury through Go Down Moses.

But I take your point and will get back to Proust and Mann as soon as I can.

[jameskaneart]

Some recent author portraits. Clearly re-acclamating to the South, and settling into Yoknapatawpha. Faulkner in gouache, Patricia Highsmith, Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers, Scottish poet laureate Edwin Morgan, and a young, very grouchy Tenn. 📚 DM me for details. (at Yoknapatawpha County) https://www.instagram.com/p/CniVa1BMsL7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[leydenara]

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I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann’s Way. It’s a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric, but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything.

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[dixiedrudge]

SCV CHAT Season 5 Episode 13-Alas poor Harrold! I knew him Moose.

Every week, we end the show with a quote from a legend, Harrold Filpots (or is it Philpots?), but who is he? Well this Monday, the men that knew him best are going to talk about him. Join GCB, Moose, J-Beau, The Son of Harrold Filpots (or is it Philpots), and maybe Thomas Franklin (Thomas may not be on; he is to be released from the Yoknapatawpha County Penal Farm first) as they discuss the…

[5brightplanets]

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It was changing all the time, yet it did not change. It was like a claybank stallion and three mares dissolving into some vague, gray distance - compressed, steady and cold.

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The Light Edit Series. Given a to-vanquish-or-not-to-vanquish muddle, WF couches it in the changing whatnots of location, location, location; metaphorically reupholstered for Japan in 1955, WF referenced events in the County of Yoknapatawpha when suggesting to the Youth of Japan that nothing but hopelessness may have an overall longevitous effect in light of everything. 100% made from Chapter V - Vendée from The Unvanquished by William Faulkner circa  1938; found in a Seventh Printing, September 1962 Signet Classics edition published by The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 501 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York. The above photo by Jivananda Candrāmā (James FitzGerald) was archived by name and posted prior. -Jivananda (Jim)

[conmuchogustoleemos]

De bestias y aves. Pilar Adón

Jueves 21 de diciembre de 2023

Nuevo encuentro del Club de Lectura “Con mucho gusto”, con sede en la biblioteca Reina Sofía, para comentar la lectura de De bestias y aves, de Pilar Adón (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022)

De bestias y aves, de Pilar Adón (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022)

Betania. Un nuevo lugar que nos ofrece la literatura y que se puede sumar a otros como Macondo, Comala, Vigata o Yoknapatawpha. Y en Betania Coro, pintora de éxito que en su huida llega al mítico lugar y a una casa donde las mujeres reinan y gobiernan, todas igual vestidas. Con este comienzo Pilar Adón va perfilando las páginas de esta excepcional novela, Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2023, en la que vuelca gran parte de sus constantes narrativas aparecidas en obras narrativas anteriores como Las efímeras y Las hijas de Sara, en las que cobra especial relevancia la casa y el tratamiento de la naturaleza.

De bestias y aves surge en el panorama de las letras españolas con fuerza al mostrar las difusas fronteras entre la realidad y la ficción, o el sueño, y en el que la naturaleza cobra un significado decisivo como lugar abierto que se configura como un personaje amenazante. Cora la protagonista, conduciendo sin rumbo en la noche, llega a los confines de un lugar insólito, temeroso y huidizo, que es habitado por extrañas mujeres de distintas edades, que la reciben como a un conocido y que le ofrecen su hospitalidad. De ahí surge la trama de una novela formalmente muy poética en la que el lector tendrá que asumir el pacto de ficción que se le ofrece. Como si tuviera ataduras, la protagonista no podrá encontrar el camino de salida de esa casa y de ese espacio, físico y humano, que percibe hostil y asfixiante. Los animales, perros e insectos de forma llamativa, también las aves que surcan los límites del lago, el agua y los árboles ejercen sobre ella una fuerza casi telúrica, que le obliga a una permanencia no deseada, pero tampoco evitada. Por dentro, un duelo no resuelto, y cierto sentimiento de culpabilidad por la hermana muerta hacen que Cora se sume a esa realidad paralela que la casa y sus habitantes le ofrecen a través de un viaje interior revelador.

Desde el punto de vista de la trama, el comienzo in medias res aumenta el desconcierto ante una situación a la que la protagonista Cora se ve abocada y que el lector no comprende. Poco a poco la novela se va volviendo más lírica al tiempo que aumenta la angustia y la asfixia. Con todo, se trata de una obra que exige la participación del lector por cuanto las interpretaciones posibles son muchas, y dependen, en último caso, de lo que el receptor busque en una historia tan peculiar.

No cabe duda de que estamos ante una obra diferente, extraña y poderosa, que va creciendo en intensidad a medida que su prosa se envuelve en un lirismo que relata el miedo, la soledad, la huida, la culpa y, en último caso, el duelo. Los espacios físicos marcan la herida interior y en De bestias y aves esta circunstancia exige, sin duda y como antes señalamos, la colaboración del lector para darle un sentido al conjunto.

Los miembros del club de lectura se sintieron desconcertados y describieron la atmósfera narrativa con varios términos contundentes por sí mismos; se habló de pesadilla, de asfixia, de hostilidad, de soledad, de mundo onírico amenazante. En cualquier caso, la fuerza de la prosa de Adón en esta obra hizo que mientras a algunos les impidió seguir la lectura por angustia, a otros les resultó excesiva; finalmente, muchos reconocieron la maestría, poeticidad y lirismo del lenguaje como uno de los mayores aciertos de la novela.

Es justo terminar estas líneas recordando que, en esta ocasión, fue un miembro del club, Asunción de la Villa, quien propuso la lectura De bestias y aves, y desde aquí mi agradecimiento porque para quien estas líneas escribe, ha sido un auténtico placer, un deleite literario de los mayores en los últimos tiempos.

¡¡¡Feliz Navidad!!!

[karlasofia66]

rory gilmore graduation speech

Headmaster Charleston, faculty members, fellow students, family and friends, welcome. We never thought this day would come. We prayed for its quick delivery, crossed days off our calendars, counted hours, minutes and seconds and now that it's here, I'm sorry it is, because it means leaving friends who inspire me and teachers who've been my mentors, so many people who've shaped my life, and my fellow students lives imperviously and forever.

I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann's Way. It’s a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric, but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything. Richard and Emily Gilmore are kind, decent, unfailingly generous people. They are my twin pillars, without whom I could not stand. I am proud to be their grandchild. But my ultimate inspiration comes from my best friend, the dazzling woman from whom I received my name and my life's blood, Lorelai Gilmore. My mother never gave me any idea that I couldn't do whatever I wanted to do or be whoever I wanted to be. She filled our house with love and fun and books and music, unflagging in her efforts to give me role models from Jane Austen to Eudora Welty to Patti Smith. As she guided me through these incredible eighteen years, I don't know if she ever realized that the person I most wanted to be was her. Thank you, Mom: you are my guidepost for everything.”

[alliluyevas]

thinking about The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project aka the faulkner wiki