Name: 22日 フォークナー、8月の光 (22. Faulkner, Light in August)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:21:21.000Z
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So we're starting on our final novel and I'm

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There's so many stories to tell about Faulkner, just

So this started out having a different title.

So you can see that it really is right on the other side of

And it's a really an interesting thing that actually

this novel could be described as either Dark House

or Light in August. So really, light and dark obviously are

have the two constitutive parts of the novel, even

though it's the light that has been highlighted in the

In fact, it could just as well have been dark.

This is what Faulkner says about the title that we now

have, Light in August. This is much later when he was talking

about it at the University of Virginia in 1957.

"In August, in Mississippi there's a few days somewhere

about the middle of the month when actually there's a

It's cool, there's a lambence, a luminous quality to the

light, as though it came not from today, but from back in

It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods from Greece.

It was just to me a pleasant, evocative title, because it

reminded me of that time of the luminosity older than our

Maybe the connection is with Lena Grove, who has something

It's about quality of light in Mississippi.

So it has this very important, local dimension to it.

But it also sees itself as completely looking back to an

extremely long literary tradition, going back to the

So that's very important to consider this, that while

Christianity is very, very important in this novel, but

it's very important to remember that Faulkner

actually also has a reference point that is older than

I think that those words are just words to most of us, so I

This is from the Roman mosaics, the satyr.

So you see basically it's like human beings, except, the feet

So this is not a very pretty image of the faun.

I think that in our minds, we tend to think of the faun as

very delicate and graceful, but actually it has kind of an

And this is probably looking more like our stereotypical

image of the faun, very graceful, but nonetheless with

So in As I Lay Dying, we talked a lot about the

So it's very important to keep that in mind as well, just in

Faulkner is invoking that whole uncertain boundary, and

certain in betweenness between human and animal.

And the satyr actually has an even long history.

Satyr, it goes back to the fifth century BC.

And there's a whole genre called the satyr comedies,

It's again, looking for most part like a human being, but

having the tail of a horse, and also the ears of a donkey.

Just to see the way in which the satyr has been

reactivated, and picked up and reincarnated in

Here is someone with the years of a satyr.

We call them Vulcan's ears, but looking exactly like the

And here is another image, basically the ears are the

Also it's small, not very noble looking compared to a

So but Faulkner, even though he's interested in the satyr

and fauns, he's not really writing about them.

He's mostly interested in Lena and the fact that she is a

"She was never ashamed of that child whether it had any

father or not, she was simply going to the conventional laws

But as far as she was concerned, she didn't

especially need any father for it anymore

on whom Jupiter begot children were anxious for home and a

So Faulkner seems to be really interested in women who get

We've seen this in As I Lay Dying, in Dewey Dell, and the

way in which that is the constant burden on her mind.

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22日フォークナー、8月の光 (22. Faulkner, Light in August)