New Orleans Sketches et la Nouvelle-Orléans de Faulkner : promenades littéraires et premiers pas dans la fiction

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关键词: William Faulkner;    Sherwood Anderson;    New Orleans;    New Orleans Skteches;    sketches;    urban topography;   

DOI  :  10.4000/erea.5267

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

At the beginning of 1925, Faulkner who was then getting ready for his first extended trip to Europe, lived six months in New Orleans, where he was struck by the city’s intense cultural bustle. It is in New Orleans that, encouraged by Sherwood Anderson, he worked on his first novel, Soldier’s Pay, and published in the local press a series of sketches and stories that he wrote day to day. The texts, which were eventually put together and published by Carvel Collins in 1958 under the title New Orleans Sketches, constitute a late testimony of Faulkner’s first steps in fiction. But because of their formal imperfections and incompleteness, commentators have often disregarded them. This paper therefore proposes a reassessment of these texts by suggesting that they should actually be considered as what they are: the first sketches of an artist that is on the lookout for the forms and figures that will soon characterize his writing, but through which, for the time being, the plural, protean portrayal of a singular city is sketched.

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