tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post4996170179016430459..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: so that dust was above and below us all the time - some Juan RulfoAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-35105780777077603872016-06-01T13:35:01.334-05:002016-06-01T13:35:01.334-05:00How I wish The Reivers has been influenced by Rulf...How I wish <i>The Reivers</i> has been influenced by Rulfo. Yoknapatawpha ghosts. The book instead shows the debilitating influence of William Faulkner.<br /><br />Several years from now I will turn Wuthering Expectations into a Southern fiction blog. The logical endpoint.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-77176644982469438552016-06-01T11:58:37.875-05:002016-06-01T11:58:37.875-05:00I just read a book of Faulkner stories. When I sat...I just read a book of Faulkner stories. When I sat down to write about it, there was so much to say (and so much of it contradictory) that I was sort of choked into silence.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-55106922949427121582016-06-01T11:58:09.937-05:002016-06-01T11:58:09.937-05:00Chronologically, The Reivers is the only Faulkner ...Chronologically, The Reivers is the only Faulkner book that could have been influenced by Rulfo. (Pedro Paramo's English translation by Lysander Kemp came out during 1959). Cleanthesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15363416290397892659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-41840266537012119742016-06-01T10:53:02.327-05:002016-06-01T10:53:02.327-05:00Yeah! The Reivers is Faulkner with the colors bad...Yeah! <i>The Reivers</i> is Faulkner with the colors badly faded. <i>As I Lay Dying</i> is colorful.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-54381849779475647392016-06-01T10:39:14.905-05:002016-06-01T10:39:14.905-05:00Apart from a few short stories in compilations I h...Apart from a few short stories in compilations I had not read him pre-blog and have only managed The Reivers since then, and that three years ago. I have now pulled As I Lay Dying from it's hiding place on your earlier recommendation. Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-52087695078507726822016-06-01T08:22:09.960-05:002016-06-01T08:22:09.960-05:00Séamus, the band and Finnegans Wake take priority,...Séamus, the band and <i>Finnegans Wake</i> take priority, absolutely.<br /><br />The absence of Faulkner has been for me one of the great mysteries of book blogs. He is the most influential novelist of the 20th century, a colossus. Almost unread by book bloggers, even the international fiction crowd that could use him. Maybe everyone read Faulkner pre-blog.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-33505046859925185602016-06-01T05:30:34.018-05:002016-06-01T05:30:34.018-05:00Great quotes from the stories, Tom. I've read ...Great quotes from the stories, Tom. I've read them last year and have been meaning to return to them and write something but I'm trudging through my own bad land at the moment where blog posts die from lack of water and a surfeit of dust. The bones lie bleaching in the river bed of my drafts... You also remind me of the fact that I need to catch up on Faulkner, now having amassed a few of his books.Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2774102742886521712016-05-25T08:49:02.371-05:002016-05-25T08:49:02.371-05:00"Like Faulkner" may be what I actually l..."Like Faulkner" may be what I actually <i>learned</i> from Rulfo's novel. One path - the path? - by which the massive Faulkner effect entered Latin American fiction.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mhpbooks.com/what-bolano-read-the-literature-of-silence/" rel="nofollow">Bolaño - yes</a>! Although that squib makes me wonder if the "influence" is more Rulfo's "failure" to write a second novel. Then again the squib claims Faulkner "admitted to having been influenced by Rulfo" - a Borgesian joke, I hope.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-5221028713369664362016-05-25T01:28:31.490-05:002016-05-25T01:28:31.490-05:00Don't know this writer but liked your account....Don't know this writer but liked your account. Wonder if Bolaño was influenced by him? Simonhttp://tredynasdays.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-41560171893576677862016-05-24T23:27:00.282-05:002016-05-24T23:27:00.282-05:00I didn't see it at the time when I read Pedro ...I didn't see it at the time when I read <i>Pedro Paramo</i>, but yes, Faulkner. All those intersecting narrators, all those ghosts, all that fatalism. Faulkner would've set the whole thing at Pedro's hacienda, though, not in the town.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2676142670997303852016-05-24T22:19:29.227-05:002016-05-24T22:19:29.227-05:00Chihuahua in the 1960s sounds like a good setting ...Chihuahua in the 1960s sounds like a good setting for a novel and a bunch of stories, too.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-67501873417413888052016-05-24T19:25:24.251-05:002016-05-24T19:25:24.251-05:00i forgot to add, that was the way it was when i li...i forgot to add, that was the way it was when i lived there, in the early sixties...Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-15539861095156295832016-05-24T19:24:24.307-05:002016-05-24T19:24:24.307-05:00chihuahua, about 300 miles south of el paso, is a ...chihuahua, about 300 miles south of el paso, is a lot like that, except surrounded by high dry treeless mesas. tarahumara indians live outside the town; they don't speak spanish. they come into town early in the morning to steal garbage to live off of. also they camp in the dry river beds, counting on flash floods to carry off their extra trash. although chihuahua is a fairly peaceful place, at certain times of the year, when the rancheros come into the city, it can be dangerous for tourists or frequenters of night spots, as shootings occur on a regular basis after which the perps disappear into the desert again. all in all, a place much like that in Paramo, but further north...Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.com