{"id":1189,"date":"2020-09-18T18:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2020-09-18T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:35:32","slug":"william-faulkner-for-21st-century-world-readers-faulkneriana-back-to-and-beyond-yoknapatawpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/william-faulkner-for-21st-century-world-readers-faulkneriana-back-to-and-beyond-yoknapatawpha\/","title":{"rendered":"William Faulkner for 21st Century World Readers: FAULKNERIANA: Back to (and Beyond) Yoknapatawpha"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Anca Peiu<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Specialized in literary studies of the Old South, Dr. Anca Peiu, an Associate Professor of the Department of English, within the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bucharest, Romania, is the author of a new book: FAULKNERIANA: Back to (and Beyond) Yoknapatawpha<\/em>. This volume represents the outcome of her devoted research for over two decades. Anca Peiu has meanwhile also published three volumes of translations into Romanian from William Faulkner\u2019s vast literary heritage. She has provided all these books with critical notes and well-documented introductory studies for Faulkner\u2019s Romanian readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book\u2019s title may hint at E. T. A. Hoffmann\u2019s \u201cKreisleriana\u201d, an evocation of a favorite romantic character in some fragmentary fiction \u2013 thus suggesting now a kaleidoscope of approaches to some particular aspects of the modern American writer\u2019s inexhaustible works. Another possible echo detectable in the present title is Louisiana, the place where William Faulkner\u2019s career as a novelist actually started, with a generous friend\u2019s encouragement, while Faulkner was living in Pirates\u2019 Alley, New Orleans.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anca Peiu\u2019s book is written in English, addressing a larger audience. The \u201cC. H. Beck\u201d Publishing House in Bucharest has offered the best support for this volume, enriched with illustrations and cover design by Ion Aram\u0103, a great graphic artist from Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We may often fall prey to clich\u00e9s about the masters of world literature. These clich\u00e9s tend to obscure their actual messages. Many readers, whether scholars or just amateurs, may (think they) know enough about William Faulkner to place him into a thematic context and an absolute literary canon of the late 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From an Eastern-European retrospective, Anca Peiu\u2019s book aims at guiding such readers through a labyrinth of universally contemporary fields of significance. Not only fine witticisms, but also the most unsettling prophecies for our times can we find through Faulknerian lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These will trouble us today more than ever; from the mock-cynical echo of a rhetorical question in Faulkner\u2019s Acceptance Speech of his Nobel Prize in 1950: \u201cWhen will I be blown up?\u201d to his ars poetica<\/em> reasserted in an interview given to The Paris Review<\/em> in 1956: \u201cI imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man\u2019s capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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