How (and why) to read William Faulkner - Sascha Morrell

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  • Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2024

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  • @SearchOfSelf
    @SearchOfSelf Год назад +463

    Faulkner's literary labyrinths are like mirrors reflecting our own biases and blindspots, forcing us to confront the complexities of history and memory 📖

    • @custos3249
      @custos3249 Год назад +13

      Meh. If you come at his novels already from a position of psychology, he's not really that pivotal or eye opening. But what do I know? My mother is a fish.

    • @ForecieYT
      @ForecieYT Год назад +3

      interesting

    • @SearchOfSelf
      @SearchOfSelf Год назад +6

      @@custos3249 That might be true, but there definitely is something special about Faulkner's writing that sets it apart for sure.

  • @Anarcath
    @Anarcath Год назад +139

    Getting to the last word of the 1288 word long sentence leaves you breathless, as if you just ran a marathon, chasing meaning and never catching it.

  • @Merrypaws
    @Merrypaws Год назад +539

    If I recall correctly, Faulkner once dissed Ernest Hemingway by saying "He's never been known to use a word that would send a reader to the dictionary."
    To which Hemingway replied: "Poor Faulkner. He thinks that big emotion comes from big words."
    I find it interesting because both of them are now considered some of the greatest juggernauts of literature, but they approached the craft from polar opposite directions.

    • @sir_albaxious1909
      @sir_albaxious1909 Год назад +5

      Lol

    • @nathanlevesque7812
      @nathanlevesque7812 Год назад +13

      They're both overrated

    • @malachickisawesome
      @malachickisawesome Год назад +54

      @@nathanlevesque7812edgy

    • @smokemystogies9063
      @smokemystogies9063 Год назад +7

      The more complex language only serves as a conduit to properly, moreso to more fittingly deliver your message, you can do the majority all with simple words but sometimes more learned words are the only things that can properly convey what you're trying to say. Just different styles of writing between the two, Faulkner just tackled things more complexly, complex in no way equates to good either

    • @Royse-zm
      @Royse-zm Год назад +1

      Even during an interview of The Paris Review Hemingway mentioned conflicts with Faulkner (if i recall correctly)😂

  • @jwcarnal
    @jwcarnal Год назад +55

    I read two Faulkner novels when 18 or 19 while attending a technical college. I wasn't an avid reader back then but in an attempt to broaden my outlook on life I slogged through the first novel telling myself maybe I'll absorb its greatness mostly with my subconscious mind because I sure couldn't understand most of it most of the time. Closing the book after reading the last sentence on the last page I could not honestly say I understood what it was about. I had a general idea of time and place and events but nothing I could explain to anyone to demonstrate my understanding. If this was Great Literature I thought to myself "I guess I'll just have to miss out on that portion of intellectual life." Faulkner is a Southern writer. I was raised in the South and was attending a Southern university. And my English literature professor kept bringing his name up when discussing American literature so... After several months had passed I read the novel again. It was one of the most remarkable experiences in my life. Those reread words now conveyed me into the lives of the characters not as an observer but as one experiencing what the characters were experiencing as to perceptions and emotional reactions to those perceptions. Great literature indeed. The same sequence was need for the second novel as well. Time consuming but well worth it.

    • @didarul-alam
      @didarul-alam Год назад +3

      As beginer which book should i start with?

    • @Suhrevardi
      @Suhrevardi Год назад +5

      ​@@didarul-alam I started with Absalom, Absalom. It is considered his best work and I think it's the best place to start. The first chapter of The Sound and the Fury is very frustrating if you are unfamiliar with Faulkner's style. As I Lay Dying changes perspective each chapter and so it becomes difficult to gain a handle on the rhythm of the style. So I suggest Absalom, Absalom - just read it slowly until you get used to the style.

  • @harshalbhanarkar
    @harshalbhanarkar Год назад +236

    Please do more such literature videos, I love these videos ❤

  • @ronkirk5099
    @ronkirk5099 Год назад +72

    I was raised a left coast liberal so I knew little about the deep south, but when I went on to read at least half a dozen of Faulkner's classic novels, I learned not only something about the south, but something about the human condition as well. A pretty great writer with a remarkable body of work. Highly recommended.

  • @asankajayaweera7212
    @asankajayaweera7212 Год назад +120

    Thanks for introducing a new writer to my reading world. Because of one of your videos, I read Toni Morrison's Beloved which astonishingly painful. So I will definitely read William's books too.

  • @sophiaisabelle027
    @sophiaisabelle027 Год назад +75

    We appreciate videos like this. They're insightful.

  • @estuchedepeluche2212
    @estuchedepeluche2212 Месяц назад +2

    In grad school, we read 3 Faulkner novels, reading them felt like being high: you don’t know what’s going on, but you are having a good time.

    • @mattcardarelli
      @mattcardarelli 19 дней назад +1

      I feel that way for Marcel Proust as well.

  • @coolskeleton_95_
    @coolskeleton_95_ Год назад +14

    This is interesting. Fully explains why I constantly get confused throughout his works. Very through explanation!

  • @normicall
    @normicall Год назад +48

    More of these literature videos please - it’s been a while

  • @jamescolbourne8298
    @jamescolbourne8298 Год назад +12

    I really recommend starting with as I lay dying or light in August, and then tackling sound and the fury or absalom, absalom! after. It can also help to look at something like sparknotes or shmoop after each chapter. He's definitely a challenging writer, but certainly one of the great ones.

  • @avinashkishore4067
    @avinashkishore4067 Год назад +14

    A video of such nature about Clarice Lispector, a lesser known genius, must be made. The meditative nature of her work.

  • @borntogazeintonightskies
    @borntogazeintonightskies Год назад +6

    Nice. I actually recommended a "Why You Should Read William Faulkner" video 3 years ago when they did one for Edgar Allan Poe.
    Not saying I had anything to do with this. Just glad that it's a thing now.

  • @derekmayers-louther
    @derekmayers-louther Год назад +26

    He was very ahead of his time using The ideas of the sunken boat fallacy way before someone even started talking about those concepts

  • @gastondeveaux3783
    @gastondeveaux3783 5 месяцев назад +2

    The best way I can describe Faulkner's soaring stream of consciousness passages would be to compare them to those 3D drawings where you have to let your eyes get slightly out of focus to see a 3D image within the drawing.
    I get that feeling sometimes with his writing, where you just let the words flow over you, like music or poetry. It has to be savoured, and, if necessary, reread after some reflection to get to another layer of understanding.
    Faulkner is rarely easy reading, but I am certain I will always keep returning to it. It is very special.

    • @tommcfadden5232
      @tommcfadden5232 2 месяца назад

      Thank you! I thought I was the only one who had this thought regarding the 3D pictures and understanding Faulkner’s work . Silly me.😊

  • @dqan7372
    @dqan7372 Год назад +5

    Ugh. I think I need to go back to bed. I just spent a good five minutes researching one of literature's most confusing writers, Sascha Morrell, and wondering why I'd never heard of her books. Now that I know that it's really Faulkner the thumbnail totally makes sense. Couldn't see it before, though. Sometimes it pays to just hit 'play'.

  • @Echo81Rumple83
    @Echo81Rumple83 Год назад +9

    If I were made to read this in highschool, I would've flunked English so hard, it would've made reading Pet Semetary a lot easier for me (I only read about 80 pages out of the 600+ it has, and I was struggling with my fifth-grade reading-level impairment at the time).

  • @N7spectre117
    @N7spectre117 Год назад +1

    Illustration for this video HAS to be added to the best of 2023 list!

  • @joelkirkpatrick5688
    @joelkirkpatrick5688 Год назад +5

    Oooo, this looks like a great read! I love books that play with your mind and discuss difficult topics, with strange and interesting characters.

  • @scavenger_of_human_sorrow9272
    @scavenger_of_human_sorrow9272 Год назад +1

    The best place to start with Faulkner is, in my opinion, "As I lay Dying", as it is, for one, not that long, and also offers a rather simple narrative.

  • @hyperactive_atlas
    @hyperactive_atlas Год назад +1

    I’ve been bingeing these videos all day
    perfect timing for a new upload

  • @goncalomba
    @goncalomba Год назад +2

    Thrilled to see that TED ED literature videos are back! Unarguably, a public good 📖

  • @basedigor
    @basedigor Год назад +11

    Faulkner can be very difficult, but most of his work is not. I think Absalom is his greatest achievement but Sound/Fury and As I Lay Dying tend to get the most praise. This short video essay does anyone new to Faulkner no favors, as while some might look at his work through the prisms of "race" and "colonialism" (really ... really?) you'd be selling his work and your time short to take that approach imo (the basic contrast in his work is between planters versus merchants, country folk versus town folk). I'd recommend starting with Snopes Trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion) and if you like his style then start going through it chronologically when it was written. For Sound and the Fury, you might want to find a good reader's guide, because you will get lost very quickly (the caddy/Caddie action takes place in the first few pages, and it only gets more difficult from there). Enjoy - Faulkner and Melville are America's greatest sons of letters, but they take patience.

  • @arodvaz1955
    @arodvaz1955 Год назад +1

    Faulkner tries one's patience but is incredibly rewarding.

  • @cecilia08yeah
    @cecilia08yeah Год назад +7

    My favorite short story from him is A Rose for Emily.

    • @casjean8904
      @casjean8904 Год назад +2

      ah! so i have read something by him! college english.

  • @writeon2593
    @writeon2593 Год назад +6

    3:41 As someone who wrote a book report on a book which I disliked for often using run on sentences, this would be a nightmare. In the essay, to prove my point, I took the entire second sentence of the story, word for word, and typed it all up in MLA font. It took up half a page. The sentence you're talking about here would likely span multiple pages and lose me and the reader in its length.

    • @johnhall3570
      @johnhall3570 Год назад +1

      Sounds like Henry James at his most verbose!

    • @johnhall3570
      @johnhall3570 Год назад +2

      The only place you used to find sentences longer than Faulkner’s were at Alcatraz!

    • @writeon2593
      @writeon2593 Год назад +1

      @@johnhall3570 No, it was actually a spanish autobiography. I can't recall the name of it, but it had a lot of mystery surrounding it as to who actually wrote it. I know, how can you have an autobiography in which you aren't sure who wrote it? Simply put, we don't know if it was actually a completely fictional story written from the perspective of a fictional character. Another option is that the events are accurate, but the writer wanted to be anonymous and wrote himself a pen name which was also used as the name of his protagonist. It was a really weird book, especially when I read it for the first time and couldn't fully translate what I read. I had to look up an english summary of the book and its chapters to actually understand what was going on.

    • @claudiasosagutierrez9742
      @claudiasosagutierrez9742 Год назад

      ​@@writeon2593 is it "The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes"? It fits with your description but I could be wrong

    • @writeon2593
      @writeon2593 Год назад

      @@claudiasosagutierrez9742 YES! Thank you! I couldn't remember the name for the life of me.

  • @ef5686
    @ef5686 Год назад +5

    this video is outstanding visually and in it's overview.

  • @theWZZA
    @theWZZA Год назад +3

    The animation is top notch and on point 🏆

  • @pazgonthecynic159
    @pazgonthecynic159 Год назад +3

    Bring back "Why you should read".

  • @fallenangelofoz8726
    @fallenangelofoz8726 Год назад +19

    I had to read Faulkner in high school. It wasn't the dissonance of povs that made me not like him, it was his dry, dry tone. I remember falling asleep on the couch reading the Jason chapter of The Sound and the Fury for school because it was sooooo boring.

  • @Rhyno012345
    @Rhyno012345 Год назад +4

    My senior year AP English teacher hated The Sound and the Fury and swore she would never require her students to read it; so I suppose it’s not for everyone.

  • @RS-md9ov
    @RS-md9ov Год назад +2

    “At first I would not go because there might be something I could do and I would not go because there might be something I could do and I would have to haul her back.”- William Faulkner.

  • @ibnarasayoub5220
    @ibnarasayoub5220 Год назад

    extremely glad to see the "why you should read" videos back again !

  • @kelvinbrito7334
    @kelvinbrito7334 7 месяцев назад

    ¡Hola! Este es seguramente el comentario que algunos de ustedes estaban esperando.
    Faulkner es ampliamente conocido y respetado entre los que sabemos de literatura (soy de Venezuela). Más aún, muchos escritores en nuestro idioma, como Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes y Juan Carlos Onetti, entre otros, tienen una gran deuda con Faulkner y sus novelas.
    Empecé a leer “Santuario” y me gustó mucho la historia, aunque no me sentí preparado para comprenderla bien. Sinceramente, creo que necesito una guía de lectura para leer a Faulkner. Por eso abandoné esta gran novela, que espero retomar pronto.
    Hasta ahora, soy más team Hemingway que team Faulkner 😂 no puedo superar la prosa del natural de Illinois. Créanme cuando les digo que pasan muchas cosas en sus historias, solo que las pasamos por alto. Pero es sin lugar a dudas un gran cuentista. De él he leído “por quién doblan las campanas” y me pareció una novela con altibajos, pero el saldo final es positivo. Ahorita estoy leyendo “islas a la deriva” y me parece increíble, no puedo asimilar que sea una de las obras menos conocidas de Hemingway. Hay muchas frases y palabras sueltas en español en esa obra.
    Ambos eran grandes a su manera y a sus estilos 👏🏻 recomiendo las entrevistas de ambos publicadas en The Paris Review. Me contenta saber que existe mucho material escrito sobre Hemingway en nuestro idioma, incluso traducido, como la biografía de Anthony Burgess, pero casi no se encuentran estudios ni biografías sobre Faulkner. Creo que esa sí es una falta imperdonable.
    Me despido felicitándolos por el excelente video que han hecho 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 me han alegrado el día.

  • @HonkeyKongLive
    @HonkeyKongLive Год назад +5

    "Poor Faulkner, does he think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway

  • @jadereyes4538
    @jadereyes4538 Месяц назад

    i was amazed to know his writing styles🤩

  • @XavierGuillaume
    @XavierGuillaume Год назад +1

    Sounds good! I love unraveling difficult literature! Hardest book I read was probably Chaucer bc it was written in Middle English.

  • @midimusicforever
    @midimusicforever Год назад +1

    Still on my todo-list.

  • @abhradas6433
    @abhradas6433 Год назад +21

    After such a long time a literature video❤❤❤ please keep uploading on literature more!!!!! Love from India.

  • @시인천국
    @시인천국 Год назад

    [등대 / 나동수]
    촌철 : 제가 어둠을 헤쳐갈 수 있었던 것은 당신이 있었기 때문입니다.
    활인 : 어머니는 자식들에게 하고 싶은 말은 많지만 꾹 참고 언제나 등대처럼 지켜봐 줍니다. 제가 이 암울한 세상을 겁 없이 헤쳐 나갈 수 있었던 것은 언제나 그 자리서 불을 비춰주는 당신이 있었기 때문입니다.

  • @mrmoose1985
    @mrmoose1985 Год назад +8

    Have you guys done an explanation of why James Joyce is difficult to read because I was trying Dubliners the other day and it’s okay

    • @derekmayers-louther
      @derekmayers-louther Год назад

      They have a video on Ulyesses

    • @jakealhalabi8194
      @jakealhalabi8194 Год назад

      Try reading chapter 1 of Ulysses, so many little references encompassed in 10 pages that you need an annotated edition just to not get confused

    • @mrmoose1985
      @mrmoose1985 Год назад

      @@jakealhalabi8194 oof
      So it’s like the historical references in classical novels

    • @mrmoose1985
      @mrmoose1985 Год назад

      @@derekmayers-louther thanks

    • @leeeorama
      @leeeorama Год назад

      You absolutely DON'T need annotations to enjoy Ulysses. The references to turn of the century Irish politics or aesthetic philosophy might not resonate with you, but it's also a fascinating and engrossing peek into the thoughts of its characters, not to mention frequently funny.

  • @sheyjutyghosh
    @sheyjutyghosh Год назад +1

    i love ted-ed's literature videos

  • @HA-Ntuli
    @HA-Ntuli Год назад

    Even some recent scientific literature is confusing because of how authors deliver the message

  • @billyparham630
    @billyparham630 2 месяца назад

    i'm reading my first faulkner right now, wild palms. ironically enough, the last book i finished right before that was hemingway's farewell to arms and i had extremely hard time readjusting from hemingway to faulkner. and only today i found out they actually disliked each other and represented two completely opposite styles. Gabriel García Márquez is next in line so i wonder how that will go. god i love second hand book shops

  • @Craw1011
    @Craw1011 Год назад

    These videos are always such a delight. If you're at all interested in requests I would love to see a video done on Pynchon!

  • @justamanfromtaured6790
    @justamanfromtaured6790 Год назад +1

    Please do more why you should read videos or literary videos

  • @AllCodyAllTheTime
    @AllCodyAllTheTime 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for this informative, and neatly-produced, presentation. .

  • @nativevirginian8344
    @nativevirginian8344 3 месяца назад

    Author Shelby Foote said if you read Light in August 2 or 3 times you can figure out “how he’s doin’ it.” Then go on to the other books. :)

  • @ArchDudeify
    @ArchDudeify Год назад

    Narrator, your voice is beautiful
    Excellent brief video

  • @Propaganda9999
    @Propaganda9999 Год назад +3

    What if he had no idea how to write books and was trolling everyone from the start

  • @Shushus-cz9lk
    @Shushus-cz9lk Год назад

    My entire English reading class in college was Faulkner short story’s and first time I heard of him sadly but they are all good

  • @yacine_mkhlf
    @yacine_mkhlf Год назад +2

    Do one on Finnegans Wake

  • @MYMOTHERISAFISH006
    @MYMOTHERISAFISH006 Год назад +3

    As someone whose mother is a fish I approve.

  • @SaintBeowulf
    @SaintBeowulf 9 месяцев назад +1

    Believe me or not, im related to him not sure on the exact relation, but we share a last name, we lived in similar areas, and my parents also say we're related to them(16 btw)

  • @Englishliterature3
    @Englishliterature3 Год назад +2

    Do more literature videos, thanks

  • @MsDaydream3r
    @MsDaydream3r Год назад +1

    *VIDEO SUGGESTIONS:*
    Neil Gaiman
    Allen Moore
    Stephen King

  • @deniserichards9337
    @deniserichards9337 Год назад

    The Sound and tThe Fury has been sitting on my shed for so long ever since I saw the James Franco movie. I’m gonna give it an honest try.

  • @nathanlevesque7812
    @nathanlevesque7812 Год назад +1

    This Emperor's New Clothes are needlessly convoluted.

  • @Suhrevardi
    @Suhrevardi Год назад

    After all is said and done, Faulkner may be the greatest writer in the English language.

  • @duongdisney
    @duongdisney 8 месяцев назад

    I have to read 2 William Faulkner's novel books are the sound & the fury, light in August, but The Sound & The Fury is the hardest book to read

  • @kristibualli5430
    @kristibualli5430 Год назад

    That music! ❤

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena Год назад

    Faulkner's works is what distinguishes himself from other literary geniuses

  • @ccooper8785
    @ccooper8785 Год назад +1

    Meh, I'll wait until someone summarises the abridged edition of the Cliffsnotes....

  • @amgm1996
    @amgm1996 Год назад +3

    Very interesting

  • @halwestkawa5089
    @halwestkawa5089 Год назад

    Create a playlist for videos about physics

  • @nardineslaiwa7384
    @nardineslaiwa7384 Год назад

    I like novels and poetry alot

  • @nemo4555
    @nemo4555 Год назад +1

    You have to put a strobe warning for 00:53

  • @J1P2K
    @J1P2K Год назад

    I have issue reading the Sound and the Fury because of my reading problems.
    I had to use an audio book to just and try to follow along.

  • @alessandrojamesdelrosario8666
    @alessandrojamesdelrosario8666 Год назад

    I want to suggest why you should read the Bronte sisters

  • @SleightCreative
    @SleightCreative Год назад +5

    My Mother Is a Fish

  • @sydneyfromyoutube7604
    @sydneyfromyoutube7604 Год назад +2

    Keep it up guys 💪😉

  • @josepablomartinez-rendon9484
    @josepablomartinez-rendon9484 Год назад

    You guys should do a video on Truman Capote and his works! 😊

  • @Cyb0rgd3ck3r
    @Cyb0rgd3ck3r Год назад

    Faulkner seems SUPER worth it... for... someone else.

  • @optomm
    @optomm Год назад

    Insightful, interesting

  • @kenrivera1908
    @kenrivera1908 Год назад +2

    @TED-ED
    Can you please do a video about Federico Garcia Lorca and his book la Casa de Bernarda Alba. It’s one of the most important works of spanish literature

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад +3

    Love your videos!😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

  • @souravhazra4460
    @souravhazra4460 Год назад +1

    Gogol and Chekhov please! 😅

  • @HienNguyenHMN
    @HienNguyenHMN Год назад +2

    "This is purposely confusing. You should read it."
    Uh... no thanks.

  • @nancyM1313
    @nancyM1313 Год назад

    thank you Very much🎭

  • @justinpurser4736
    @justinpurser4736 Год назад +1

    I enjoy the literature videos (as do so many others.) Please consider doing a series of videos on books of The Bible.

  • @126_md.naeimhossen2
    @126_md.naeimhossen2 Год назад

    "Waste land" by T. S. Elliot please
    Or "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster please

  • @josephvaz5238
    @josephvaz5238 Год назад

    I love this video so much

  • @mecahhannah
    @mecahhannah Год назад

    Awesome thanks

  • @LovenArtiste
    @LovenArtiste Год назад +1

    Which books of his would you guys recommend?

    • @themaestro2572
      @themaestro2572 Год назад +1

      The Unvanquished. It's a coming-of-age story of Colonel Sartoris, a reoccurring character in Faulkner's stories, and his ascent into the social respect of Yoknapatawpha expectant to his station not just by birth but also his intellect, courage, and morality that exceed his fellow man.

    • @LovenArtiste
      @LovenArtiste Год назад

      @@themaestro2572 Thank you for the recommendation as well as the description. It seems intriguing.

  • @aaronpajuelo1963
    @aaronpajuelo1963 8 месяцев назад

    gracias por la traducción

  • @sagarsondarva643
    @sagarsondarva643 Год назад +2

    Same thing happened with me while reading Stephen King's DREAMCATCHER, at first and even more as story progresses, it's hard to tell what was dream and what was in reality. Only the parts where the word Mr. Grey used made me realise it was in the dream...

  • @JustinFung2
    @JustinFung2 Год назад +1

    Would love to know the song.

  • @Wild.Liferary
    @Wild.Liferary Год назад

    New book video plz!!
    "Heart of Darkness"!!

  • @sir_albaxious1909
    @sir_albaxious1909 Год назад

    Reminds me of the Anime, Baccano!

  • @fredgoch8251
    @fredgoch8251 5 месяцев назад

    Musics too loud and it makes it difficult to hear you.

  • @isabelaoliveira9270
    @isabelaoliveira9270 Месяц назад

    Pretendo ler "O som e a fúria" em breve e estou receosa pois a escrita parece bem difícil...
    Mas morro de curiosidade de conhecer as obras do Faulkner

  • @Bacon1108
    @Bacon1108 Год назад +1

    cool

  • @1stfire_shadow
    @1stfire_shadow 8 месяцев назад

    Is Sacha morell the name of the book?

  • @mdruhulaminsany993
    @mdruhulaminsany993 Год назад

    Can you please make a video about "Man of destiny"

  • @Olleh-264
    @Olleh-264 Год назад

    Hello

  • @cesaryao812
    @cesaryao812 Год назад

    What are these books names

  • @ARedFeather
    @ARedFeather Год назад

    Lets leave this for a few years... can barely get my head around the lord of the rings

  • @송정화-g8m
    @송정화-g8m Год назад +1

    0:53 That picture reminds me of Rising sun flag(Asahi flag) which is similar with Nazis.
    Be careful with making animations, please

  • @bhimsharma9226
    @bhimsharma9226 Год назад +1

    With more stuff we more smart we become. That how our school system works . In early days of child life they consider if children read more and more , more smart they become. That how they destruct child`s life.