Join Paul Walker and James Wilson (yes, of Sons of Bill fame) for The Life and Work of William Faulkner. We discuss Faulkner’s brave, honest, (and perhaps peerless?) exploration of “the human heart in conflict with itself,”–his self-proclaimed raison d’etre for his varied and voluminous literary corpus. And, we attempt to make a compelling case for the deeply flawed (go figure) author’s Christian hope which stealthily seeps up out of the fecund ground of his imaginative, storytelling, Christ-haunted genius. We give special attention The Sound And The Fury, the work we believe to be the masterpiece of American literature.
No lit-crit savvy necessary! As one professor said, “If you want to learn about other people, read Dostoyevsky. If you want to learn about yourself, read Faulkner.” So, come one, come all!
Here’s the audio recording from the session.
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Oh, dear James, I wish I could attend…but I’ll be on a trip with the Tandem Class of 2013…Sometime, I hope to hear what you have to say about Mr. Faulkner… Much Love, Nura