William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
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Re: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
#2History doesn't repeat but boy does it rhyme.
Re: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
#3Faulkner's final paragraph includes this optimistic assertion: "I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail."
Re: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
#4That was very stirring. Thank you.
Re: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
#5So good! Thanks for the share.
Re: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
#6Faulker lore: he didn’t want to attend this ceremony. He wrote the speech in the plane while he was drunk. And quickly delivered the speech drunk and mumbling.
Re: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
#7Is it just me, or does Faulkner come off as extremely overwrought and self-indulgent. Especially when you consider some of his contemporaries (Hemingway, Steinbeck) who opted for simplicity, Faulkner comes off as flexing his thesaurus and creating artificially flowery paragraphs that convey very little.
There is novelty in complex language/code, but truly beautiful code/language is as simple as possible.
Re: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
#8Is it just me, or does Faulkner come off as extremely overwrought and self-indulgent. Especially when you consider some of his contemporaries (Hemingway, Steinbeck) who opted for simplicity, Faulkner comes off as flexing his thesaurus and creating artificially flowery paragraphs that convey very little. There is novelty in complex language/code, but truly beautiful code/language is as simple as possible.
are you talking about the language in this speech or in his novels?
Re: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
#9Is it just me, or does Faulkner come off as extremely overwrought and self-indulgent. Especially when you consider some of his contemporaries (Hemingway, Steinbeck) who opted for simplicity, Faulkner comes off as flexing his thesaurus and creating artificially flowery paragraphs that convey very little. There is novelty in complex language/code, but truly beautiful code/language is as simple as possible.
overwrought is not a word i knew. a "wrought" thing is made in a particular way, or made by effort and artistry, and an "overwrought" thing is overly complex or elaborate.
You can say, "a novel she wrought" or the novel was "well wrought". Presumably "she wrought a novel" is also fine. Its like a generalised "made something using skills".
"Beautifully wrought code". Although I reckon most reading it would just think you can't spell.
Re: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (1949)
#10Faulker lore: he didn’t want to attend this ceremony. He wrote the speech in the plane while he was drunk. And quickly delivered the speech drunk and mumbling.
...in a heavy, almost incomprehensible (to his audience) southern accent.