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Faulkner and Southern History: A View from Germany

Faulkner and Southern History: A View from Germany ESSAY Faulkner and Southern History A View from Germany by Peter Nicolaisen ? die summer of 1 96 1 , 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 of his familiar poses. Who knows? Perhaps Johnson, who was quite tall, intimidated him, and Faulkner had never thought much of Germans anyway. Johnson's disappointment clearly shows in a letter written to friends in Germany after he had left Charlottesville. "I only wanted to ask him something and thought that he'd start talking then," he wrote, going on to say that when he called at Faulkner's home on Rugby Road he was told, "Mr. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Faulkner and Southern History: A View from Germany

Nicolaisen, Peter
Southern Cultures , Volume 4 (4) – Jan 4, 1998
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ESSAY Faulkner and Southern History A View from Germany by Peter Nicolaisen ? die summer of 1 96 1 , 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 of his familiar poses. Who knows? Perhaps Johnson, who was quite tall, intimidated him, and Faulkner had never thought much of Germans anyway. Johnson's disappointment clearly shows in a letter written to friends in Germany after he had left Charlottesville. "I only wanted to ask him something and thought that he'd start talking then," he wrote, going on to say that when he called at Faulkner's home on Rugby Road he was told, "Mr.

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Published: Jan 4, 1998

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