William Faulkner cytaty

William Cuthbert Faulkner – amerykański powieściopisarz, autor opowiadań i poeta. Laureat Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury w 1949.

Życie Faulknera związane było z amerykańskim Południem, a bogata twórczość pisarza była literacką rekonstrukcją jego dziejów od czasów wojny secesyjnej po współczesność.

Twórczość Faulknera uchodzi za stawiającą czytelnikowi wysokie wymagania. Jest on uznawany za jednego z najważniejszych amerykańskich pisarzy. Utwory Amerykanina, o sporej głębi emocjonalnej i często dotyczące konfliktów psychologicznych, cechują się długimi zdaniami i wyszukanym tokiem narracji – w przeciwieństwie do dzieł długoletniego rywala Faulknera, Ernesta Hemingwaya, znanego z oszczędnego w wyrazie, wręcz minimalistycznego stylu. Niektórzy uznają Faulknera za jedynego prawdziwego amerykańskiego reprezentanta prozy modernistycznej lat 30., stawiając go w jednym szeregu z Jamesem Joyce'em, Virginią Woolf i Marcelem Proustem. Zwie się Faulknera współczesnym Dostojewskim, głównie z uwagi na powieść Wściekłość i wrzask , w której, jak pisze Bieńkowski, Faulkner "zszedł do piekła patologii i ukazał współczesny świat w całym chaosie, w całym wrzasku, w całej wściekłości". Faulkner w swoich utworach stosował technikę znaną pod nazwą strumienia świadomości, liczne retrospekcje, a także wykorzystywał kilku narratorów jednocześnie. Akcja wielu jego utworów rozgrywa się w fikcyjnym hrabstwie Yoknapatawpha.



✵ 25. Wrzesień 1897 – 6. Lipiec 1962
William Faulkner Fotografia

Dzieło

Kiedy umieram
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Wściekłość i wrzask
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Sanctuary
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A Rose for Emily
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William Faulkner: 247   Cytatów 10   Polubień

William Faulkner słynne cytaty

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?
To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

William Faulkner Cytaty o ludziach

William Faulkner cytaty

„Zabić można tylko ciało człowieka. Nie można zabić jego głosu.”

Źródło: Melania Sobańska-Bondaruk, Stanisław Bogusław Lenard (oprac.), Wiek XX w źródłach, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2002, ISBN 8301127104, s. 244.

„Może nic nigdy nie zdarza się tylko jeden raz i nic nigdy nie jest ostatecznie skończone.”

Postać: Quentin Compson
Absalomie, Absalomie

„Człowiek jest sumą swoich nieszczęść.”

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. (ang.)
Źródło: Wściekłość i wrzask (ang. The Sound and the Fury, 1929), tłum. Anna Przedpełska-Trzeciakowska

„Trzeba dwojga, żeby zrobić człowieka, starczy jedno, żeby umrzeć. Tak oto świat się skończy.”

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end. (ang.)
Kiedy umieram
Źródło: wyd. Czytelnik, Warszawa 1968, s. 45.

William Faulkner: Cytaty po angielsku

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontekst: Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

William Faulkner książka Requiem for a Nun

Act 1, sc. 3; this has sometimes been paraphrased or misquoted as "The past isn't over. It isn't even past."
Źródło: Requiem for a Nun (1951)

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

William Faulkner książka If I Forget Thee

Źródło: The Wild Palms

“Wonder. Go on and wonder.”

William Faulkner książka Wściekłość i wrzask

Źródło: The Sound and the Fury

“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

William Faulkner książka Kiedy umieram

Źródło: As I Lay Dying (1930)

“That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing — from reading.”

Faulkner in the University, p. 117
Faulkner in the University (1959)

“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”

William Faulkner książka Mosquitoes

Źródło: Mosquitoes

“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontekst: No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race. Its various allegories are the charts against which he measures himself and learns to know what he is. It cannot teach a man to be good as the textbook teaches him mathematics. It shows him how to discover himself, evolve for himself a moral codes and standard within his capacities and aspirations, by giving him a matchless example of suffering and sacrifice and the promise of hope.

“If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green.”

A statement regarding the Emmett Till murder.
Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontekst: If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. Maybe the purpose of this sorry and tragic error committed in my native Mississippi by two white adults on an afflicted Negro child is to prove to us whether or not we deserve to survive. Because if we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.

“There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontekst: There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp. I don’t want money badly enough to work for it. In my opinion it’s a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean.”

William Faulkner książka The Reivers

The Reivers (1962)
Kontekst: When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it, which is not innocence but appetite; his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it, which is not ignorance but size. But Boon didn't know this. He must seduce me. And he had so little time: only from the time the train left until dark.

“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontekst: Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontekst: If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us. Proof of that is that there are about three candidates for the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. But what is important is Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, not who wrote them, but that somebody did. The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.

“Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontekst: The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

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