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Article: Faulkner and Southern History.(southern American writer William Faulkner)
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- Southern Cultures
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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A View from Germany
In the summer of 1961, Uwe Johnson, a young German writer whose first novel had appeared two years earlier, visited William Faulkner in Charlottesville, Virginia. He had tried Oxford, Mississippi, first, but had been directed north. Johnson had been an avid reader of Faulkner's novels while a student at Leipzig University in the 1950s; there, he would read The Sound and the Fury to his friends in English, quickly translating into German the passages they did not understand. The young man had looked forward to meeting Faulkner for some time, but the visit was a bitter disappointment. Faulkner was not in a good mood and quickly slipped into one ...
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