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per una monaca è il seguito di Santuario, Se in Santuario la protagonista era anche la morbosità e la violenza di certi capitoli, qui si assiste a un cambiamento.
Requiem per una monaca è una commedia in tre atti con scenari diversi di volta in volta, accompagnati ognuno da prologhi non dialoghi che racchiudono la storia della città e della sua costruzione.
Si passa dal tribunale nell'atto primo sino al Parlamento nell'atto secondo per poi giungere alla prigione nell'atto finale e conclusivo.
Ognuno di questi scenari racconta cosa avviene ai protagonisti e cosa succede loro,
Riprende da quanto avvenuto nell'opera precedente cercando di trovare una soluzione, un finale alle vicende narrate,
A differenza di Santuario, il cambiamento che avviene qui e di cui si parla ha a che fare con la possibilità del perdono,
la possibilità di perdonare se stessi e il male fatto.
"C'era qualcosa più forte della tragedia a tenere due persone insieme: il perdono",
In questa commedia, i personaggi cercano di trovare un significato alla propria vita e anche attraverso la sofferenza di ognuno provano a cercare la salvezza del mondo.
Qui si tenta di dare una possibilità alla speranza, alla quale sembra difficile rinunciare e resistere, condamnés et damnés, tous les personnages de Faulkner et Temple mais les introductions aux actes sont très exigeantes et lourdes même si cest impressionnant donc, complexe mais Temple A thousand tiny threads coming together to form what A country A soul Ondivago Faulkner
Le primepagine circa un ampio preambolo di frasi e concetti che apparentemente non si chiudono mi hanno sfiancato al punto da essere fortemente tentato di mollare il romanzo.
Un Faulkner!
Poi è arrivata la scena prima dell'Atto primo, con la sua teatralità, in cui gli spazi stretti vengono riempiti con botta e risposta tra i pochi personaggi, tenuti sul palcoscenico da un Faulkner che, cucendone i pensieri a mo' di regista, ne scarnifica magistralmente le azioni.
Una sceneggiatura in piena regola, grazie alla quale l'alternanza di preamboli sì, ce ne sono altri due, meno 'legnosi' del primo, più epici, ma che a esso si ricongiungono e anzi lo valorizzano, andando a chiudere con notevole creatività letteraria il percorso di civilizzazione pionieristica Americana e il dramma di una madre si fondono in un dipinto immaginifico, e al tempo stesso estremamente reale, delle molteplici sfaccettature di Giustizia, senso di responsabilità e redenzione, imbevute di quell'impronta stilistica assolutamente magmatica che l'autore ha il dono di avere tra le dita.
I had. . a hard time with this book, Being completely honest, I skippedpages that I couldnt bring myself to read, It was powerful, but Im not sure that I fully understood it, In some ways it was easier than Faulkners other books, and in other ways much harder, Deliberately writing my review on this before reading anyone elses analysis, so that I wont be swayed by other opinions!!
Despite the fact that the narrative intro to each act was really hard for me, I think the play itself is a very easy and good intro to Faulkners writing for those who have been trying to break through.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi, Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons of Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler.
He had three younger brothers: Murry Charles "Jack" Falkner, author John Faulkner, and Dean Swift Faulkner, Soon after his first birthday, his family moved to Ripley, Mississippi, On September,, the Falkner family settled in Oxford, where he lived on and off for the rest of his life.
His family, particularly his mother Maud, his maternal grandmother Lelia Butler, and Caroline "Callie" Barr the black woman who raised him from infancy crucially influenced the development of Faulkner's artistic imagination.
Both his mother and grandmother were avid readers and also painters and photographers, educating him in visual language, and thank you Wikipedia for all of this personal history that doesn't have a whole lot to do with this review.
Faulkner is all about the history and context of a person, and in Requiem for a Nun, of a place.
It is a curious book in that at least half of it is an absorbing fauxhistory lesson one that doesn't have a whole lot to do with what the book is supposedly about.
So what is the point of Requiem It appears to be a continuation of Temple Drake's story from Sanctuary, in play form.
Like so:
Temple Drake, wringing her hands, her voice on the edge of hysteria:The language that Faulkner uses to describe the history and context of this certain place is gorgeous.
"III am still an empty vessel, now a walking symbol of a life not being lived, of selfishness and selfdenial and just plain denialdenial, oh woe is me! My dead eyes refuse to cry but my angst smolders and burns!"
Nancy, resolute and vaguely saintly:
"I am Temple's black servant and I shall die for her sins! It is what I have been placed in this story to do! My spirituality and my checkered past and my willingness to sacrifice myself for some sad, trifling white woman illustrates my innate saintliness! Also, I murdered Temple's baby because sometime you have to kill an infant so that a wife can be forced to stay with her husband and not run off like some slattern! Hallelujah, oh glory be! Off I go to die! Praise Jesus!"
Temple Drake, nervously tapping her foot, her eyes darting here and there:
"Farewell, saintly black woman! You die so that I shall live! And that's not messed up at all, no way, not one little bit! I'm sorry, what was your name again"
William Faulkner:
"Both of you are dreadfully tedious and so I find myself being endlessly distracted when trying to make something meaningful out of your socalled lives.
I think I shall write more about the history and context of a certain place because why not, I'm motherfuckin' Faulkner and I do what I wanna do!"
Swooningly beautiful in that classic, often hypnotic Faulkner way, full of these gloriously long, long, looooong sentences writing that is subtle and ironic and often a deadpan sort of humorous my favorite.
Style to die for, which is a rare and wonderful thing when reading history, I could get lost in that kind of prose, and I often did, Lost in the best sort of way, I often forgot that this book was supposed to be about irritating, useless Temple Drake, . . and apparently Faulkner did too, Faulkner's sequel to Sanctuary, set eight years later with Temple Drake married to Gowan Stevens, gives a more complete picture of the inner workings of this woman's mind and soul, though it remains far from clear in true Faulkner style.
Temple seems a very damaged woman, but when that damage began and who inflicted it cannot be answered, Was it when Gowan crashed his car Or perhaps her decision to meet him for that game Or later with Popeye Or earlier, as an overly cherished and protected daughter of Jefferson, Mississippi prominence As a young woman of entitlement, she had always done what she wished to do.
For me she is not evil so much as incapable of being a full human being, There is something missing in her, perhaps the ability to truly relate to others,
Faulkner has chosen an interesting structure for Requiem, There are discourses on the long history of Jefferson and the surrounding county, some parts exquisitely told, separated by a three act play whose major players are Lawyer Gavin Stevens and Temple Drake.
The play contains very detailed stage directions, such as are found in the plays of Tennessee Williams, These add greatly to both understanding and enjoyment,
Any one planning to read this book really should read Sanctuary first, The connections are very specific, And I would suggest reading Requiem soon after,
I have purposefully not provided much specific plot information here, That would only serve to spoil a future reader's enjoyment, And, as I see it, Temple is the rather inscrutable center of both books, There are no nuns in this book, This sequel to Faulkner's SANCTUARY writtenyears later, takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in SANCTUARY.
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