Re: Hello, and Faulkner & Salinger


Subject: Re: Hello, and Faulkner & Salinger
From: Melinda Casino (mcasino@totalise.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 30 2000 - 09:44:10 GMT


> "Cecilia Baader" <ceciliaann@hotmail.com> wrote:

[...]

> >RE Faulkner:
> >=========
> I think that you may have something with the Faulkner thing. JDS
would have
> most definitely been aware of old William, and the idea that good
writers
> being destroyed by Hollywood is something that was rampant in those
days.
> For good writers were going to Hollywood and selling out. W. Somerset
> Maugham is another example. Big names, no?

Ah well, yes, good point -- I suppose Hollywood was busy corrupting alot
of writiers in those days -- Dorothy Parker is the other one I'm aware
of (I think she was brought in to sharpen up the dialogue.), along with
her boyfriend.

> It doesn't happen so much today, though I wonder if that's more
because
> Hollywood has lost all concept of good taste. A monkey, for example,
must
> have written "The Patriot". I can think of no other explanation for
its
> awkwardness.

:D I haven't seen, nor plan to see, "The Patriot", but the Brits over
here are lukewarm over it. Hollywood has lost all its pretentions to do
anything else but flat-out entertain.

> I can think of someone on this list, if he's still around, who is a
big
> Faulkner fan. rev. bob? Care to step in?

(If this rev. bob or anyone else knows of a Faulkner mailing list, or a
Southern Litertature type mailing list, I'd be obliged for the
information. I tried looking these up at http://www.liszt.com/ but
didn't come up with anything. Then again, I couldn't locate *this* list
there, either, so I don't know how inclusive it is.)

> Anyway, welcome. Pull out a chair, grab a cup of coffee, and let's
talk.

Right-o! :)

Melinda

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