6 Nov 2022

"Was" - Go down, Moses by William Faulkner

 








"Was" Go down, Moses by William Faulkner de Ana María Sánchez Mosquera

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  1. Joyce was a great intellectual.He reflected the sheer chaos and anarchy of his time in "Ulysses" .A mastermind.Faulkner admired him and the new fictional methods but, he was not a cosmopolitan who rejected provincialism and religion , he was just a Southerner...
    It was in Oxford , Mississipi, where Faulkner worked out the moral and spiritual of his narrative."The past is not dead, it´s not even past"he once said.Indeed, "Was" contains all the themes which permeate all through the novel and the South itself : the rape of the land from the Indians, the sin of slavery and the royal pretensions of the plantation owners.
    Interestingly enough, he uses the grotesque (roan tooth)and black humour( the water moccasin) to depict the physical and psychological strength of the black people and women.

    Faulkner himself was strongly influenced by his religious mother and his African nanny."Go down , Moses, the song goes, and tell the pharaoh to let my people go "...That is his mastery , behind the complex architecture of his narrative hide deep human passions and values ....not only from the South but universal.

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