- Taschenbuch: 528 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper Perennial; Auflage: 1 (14. Juni 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060935553
- ISBN-13: 978-0060935559
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,6 x 13,7 x 3,6 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.560.020 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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A boy who loved solitary rambles and hanging around his father's livery stable, "the hub of daily life" in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, Faulkner became a poetry-writing dandy known first as the Count, then, given his feckless ways and taste for alcohol, Count No 'Count. But this seeming ne'er-do-well possessed an abiding love of the land, keen curiosity about southern history, and an unwavering devotion to literature. It takes a fellow artist to fully understand the vagaries of the creative process, and not only is Parini a poet and a novelist, he is also the author of two previous, uniquely enlightening biographies of John Steinbeck and Robert Frost. Here Parini--his prose crystalline, his interpretation proficient--brilliantly illuminates Faulkner's complex psyche, phenomenal literary innovations, and demanding life. As Parini tracks Faulkner from his chaotic incubation period to the "one matchless time" between 1928 and 1942 when he wrote one revolutionary masterpiece after another, his stints in Hollywood, efforts as a farmer and patriarch of a needy extended family, and winning of the Nobel Prize, Faulkner and his immeasurably influential work come into focus as never before. Engrossing and revelatory, this is a landmark biography. Donna Seaman
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Pressestimmen
“Does everything a good literary biography should do…ONE MATCHLESS TIME is…a Faulkner biography for our time.” (Joseph Blotner, Sewanee Review )
“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling.” (Seattle Times )
“[Parini] has a fellow writer’s appreciation for Faulkner’s language, and expresses that appreciation vividly...His book pays eloquent tribute.” (J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books )
“Irresistible...A new understanding of how [Faulkner] connected his violent, inchoate past with literature’s perdurable future...Reads like a novel.” (Christian Science Monitor )
“A worthy contribution to Faulkner scholarship . . . [Parini’s] deft handling of biographical fact forms a riveting narrative.” (Victor Strandberg, Chicago Tribune )
“Parini’s candid, personal, and extremely readable book is the place to send readers looking for an overview of [Faulkner’s] career.” (William H. Pritchard, Commonweal )
“Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” (Houston Chronicle )
“The heroic Parini hurries us directly back to THE SOUND AND THE FURY, LIGHT IN AUGUST, and ABSALOM, ABSALOM!” (John Leonard, Harper's Magazine )
“A matchless look at the writer... With his characteristic elegance, Parini captures splendidly Faulkner’s... inestimable literary achievement.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution )
“Fine biography... Parini maintains a good balance of the man and his art. [His] analyses ring true.” (Tennessean )
Parini––his prose crystalline, his interpretation proficient––brilliantly illuminates Faulkner’s complex psyche... Engrossing and revelatory, this is a landmark biography. (Booklist (starred review) )
“The time is right for a biography like Jay Parini’s ONE MATCHLESS TIME.” (Wall Street Journal )
“An accomplished novelist and biographer, Parini . . . provides a brisk, engrossing account of Faulkner’s life.” (Oregonian )
“No living literary biographer, and few dead ones, surpass Jay Parini’s skill...[He] renders a formidable giant of letters accessible. (Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and biographer of Mark Twain )
“Told with literary grace, pacing, and narrative drive... Jay Parini’s biography of William Faulkner easily tops all others.” (Frank Lentricchia, Duke University )
“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling.” (Seattle Times )
“[Parini] has a fellow writer’s appreciation for Faulkner’s language, and expresses that appreciation vividly...His book pays eloquent tribute.” (J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books )
“Irresistible...A new understanding of how [Faulkner] connected his violent, inchoate past with literature’s perdurable future...Reads like a novel.” (Christian Science Monitor )
“A worthy contribution to Faulkner scholarship . . . [Parini’s] deft handling of biographical fact forms a riveting narrative.” (Victor Strandberg, Chicago Tribune )
“Parini’s candid, personal, and extremely readable book is the place to send readers looking for an overview of [Faulkner’s] career.” (William H. Pritchard, Commonweal )
“Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” (Houston Chronicle )
“The heroic Parini hurries us directly back to THE SOUND AND THE FURY, LIGHT IN AUGUST, and ABSALOM, ABSALOM!” (John Leonard, Harper's Magazine )
“A matchless look at the writer... With his characteristic elegance, Parini captures splendidly Faulkner’s... inestimable literary achievement.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution )
“Fine biography... Parini maintains a good balance of the man and his art. [His] analyses ring true.” (Tennessean )
Parini––his prose crystalline, his interpretation proficient––brilliantly illuminates Faulkner’s complex psyche... Engrossing and revelatory, this is a landmark biography. (Booklist (starred review) )
“The time is right for a biography like Jay Parini’s ONE MATCHLESS TIME.” (Wall Street Journal )
“An accomplished novelist and biographer, Parini . . . provides a brisk, engrossing account of Faulkner’s life.” (Oregonian )
“No living literary biographer, and few dead ones, surpass Jay Parini’s skill...[He] renders a formidable giant of letters accessible. (Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and biographer of Mark Twain )
“Told with literary grace, pacing, and narrative drive... Jay Parini’s biography of William Faulkner easily tops all others.” (Frank Lentricchia, Duke University )
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A sense of place was everything to William Faulkner, and more than any other American novelist in the twentieth century, he understood how to mine the details of place, including its human history, for literary effects. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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A Sad Life And One Filled With Integrity
15. Januar 2005
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Parini does his best work investigating the early days of Faulkner and putting them into a social, specifically Southern, context, but unlike Blotner he manages to enlarge that context into the whole space of American modernism. He makes you feel Faulkner's yearning to be accepted as part of an international avant-garde, and yet at the same time he didn't want that, he wanted, like his grandfather, to be a writer revered by his peers down home. Parini does enough with the "gay male friends" theme to warrant further scholarly investigation into gay modernist Southern art and literature, though such a topic doesn't necessarily depemd on the weight of Faulkner's name for it to be interesting in and of itself. And how about his friendship with Bil and Helen Baird and the whole puppeteering thing, I could read about this forever.
About the women in Faulkner's life, Parini stumbles a little. I don't think he makes Estelle, Jill, Meta Carpenter, Jean Stein or Joan Williams as interesting as Blotner did. They all kind of converge into an foggy enemy figure, like Judy and Madeleine in Hitchcock's VERTIGO--maybe this was Parini's intention (to paint his hero as a victim of sexual obsession), but the truth is that all of these women were very different characters, and in my opinion still the best book written about Faulkner is the wonderful A LOVING GENTLEMAN, Meta Carpenter Wilde's very moving memoir of her love affair with W. Faulkner. That said, I admire Parini's book and the skill with which it comes together. It makes you want to re-read some of the neglected books, I especially like his defense of the cobbled-together 50s collection BIG WOODS. The truth is I could read a new Faulkner biography every year, they're all pretty good and this one, as the newest, deserves the attention of all of us.
About the women in Faulkner's life, Parini stumbles a little. I don't think he makes Estelle, Jill, Meta Carpenter, Jean Stein or Joan Williams as interesting as Blotner did. They all kind of converge into an foggy enemy figure, like Judy and Madeleine in Hitchcock's VERTIGO--maybe this was Parini's intention (to paint his hero as a victim of sexual obsession), but the truth is that all of these women were very different characters, and in my opinion still the best book written about Faulkner is the wonderful A LOVING GENTLEMAN, Meta Carpenter Wilde's very moving memoir of her love affair with W. Faulkner. That said, I admire Parini's book and the skill with which it comes together. It makes you want to re-read some of the neglected books, I especially like his defense of the cobbled-together 50s collection BIG WOODS. The truth is I could read a new Faulkner biography every year, they're all pretty good and this one, as the newest, deserves the attention of all of us.
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Well Done!
14. März 2005
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What was William Faulkner doing when he wrote THE SOUND AND THE FURY, LIGHT IN AUGUST, THE HAMLET, ABSALOM, ABSALOM! and GO DOWN, MOSES? In this fascinating biography, Professor Parini tells you, as his narrative moves from Faulkner's life to his work and back again, describing this great writer`s personal and historical world while analyzing his demanding oeuvre.
How did Faulkner acquire his estate, Rowan Oak, after only modest sales for his first books? How did his ultimately lucrative connection to Hollywood affect his work? The answers to such questions are in this thorough, but not long, book. On this level, this biography is a feast for Faulkner fans.
Even so, this biography has a maddening quality. In particular, this reader was blind-sided as Faulkner, without any preparation by the author, recited complete Shakespearean sonnets at a dinner party, acknowledged his love of French literature, or spoke French. These incidents obviously capture influences on Faulkner's artistic sensibility. Yet, they are never really built into the experience of the historical man and artist that Parini describes.
Faulkner, in addition, was obviously well-read. Yet Parini never discusses what Faulkner was reading, when he was reading it, and how the reading affected him. For an isolated and struggling writer, his reading-though hard to pin down-had to be an important influence and inspiration. In my opinion, occasional references to his reading would have been interesting. But as it is, this biography shows Faulkner in his most creative period without any such literary interests or precursors. In ONE MATCHLESS Time, he is either working madly or on an alcoholic binge.
How did Faulkner acquire his estate, Rowan Oak, after only modest sales for his first books? How did his ultimately lucrative connection to Hollywood affect his work? The answers to such questions are in this thorough, but not long, book. On this level, this biography is a feast for Faulkner fans.
Even so, this biography has a maddening quality. In particular, this reader was blind-sided as Faulkner, without any preparation by the author, recited complete Shakespearean sonnets at a dinner party, acknowledged his love of French literature, or spoke French. These incidents obviously capture influences on Faulkner's artistic sensibility. Yet, they are never really built into the experience of the historical man and artist that Parini describes.
Faulkner, in addition, was obviously well-read. Yet Parini never discusses what Faulkner was reading, when he was reading it, and how the reading affected him. For an isolated and struggling writer, his reading-though hard to pin down-had to be an important influence and inspiration. In my opinion, occasional references to his reading would have been interesting. But as it is, this biography shows Faulkner in his most creative period without any such literary interests or precursors. In ONE MATCHLESS Time, he is either working madly or on an alcoholic binge.
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6. Januar 2005
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It is a measure of the success of Jay Parini's William Faulkner biography, ONE MATCHLESS TIME, that the overwhelming desire on finishing it is to return to the works of the author and read, or reread, them from the beginning. It is particularly refreshing to find in the sections that analyze the books individually no descent into the obscurantism that pervades so much "professional" literary criticism. Parini's account is, however, marred, as a previous reviewer pointed out, by an unaccountable number of typographical and other mistakes that are no less maddening for their slightness. For example, "Jefferson County" appears several times when Lafayette is intended; there is the birthdate error; and about 20 other typographical glitches. These serve to break the spell that would otherwise propel most readers, I think, to finish this fine book in a gulp.
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