The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War By Michael Edward Gorra

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2020How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, in this reconsideration of Faulkner's life and legacy.William Faulkner, one of America’s most iconic writers, is an author who defies easy interpretation. Born in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such classic novels as Absolom, Absolom! and The Sound and The Fury, creating in Yoknapatawpha county one of the most memorable gallery of characters ever assembled in American literature. Yet, as acclaimed literary critic Michael Gorra explains, Faulkner has sustained justified criticism for his failures of racial nuance—his ventriloquism of black characters and his rendering of race relations in a largely unreconstructed South—demanding that we reevaluate the Nobel laureate’s life and legacy in the twenty-first century, as we reexamine the junctures of race and literature in works that once rested firmly in the American canon.Interweaving biography, literary criticism, and rich travelogue, The Saddest Words argues that even despite these contradictions—and perhaps because of them—William Faulkner still needs to be read, and even more, remains central to understanding the contradictions inherent in the American experience itself. Evoking Faulkner’s biography and his literary characters, Gorra illuminates what Faulkner maintained was “the South’s curse and its separate destiny,” a class and racial system built on slavery that was devastated during the Civil War and was reimagined thereafter through the South’s revanchism. Driven by currents of violence, a “Lost Cause” romanticism not only defined Faulkner’s twentieth century but now even our own age.Through Gorra’s critical lens, Faulkner’s mythic Yoknapatawpha County comes alive as his imagined land finds itself entwined in America’s history, the characters wrestling with the ghosts of a past that refuses to stay buried, stuck in an unending cycle between those two saddest words, “was” and “again.” Upending previous critical traditions, The Saddest Words returns Faulkner to his sociopolitical context, revealing the civil war within him and proving that “the real war lies not only in the physical combat, but also in the war after the war, the war over its memory and meaning.”Filled with vignettes of Civil War battles and generals, vivid scenes from Gorra’s travels through the South—including Faulkner’s Oxford, Mississippi—and commentaries on Faulkner’s fiction, The Saddest Words is a mesmerizing work of literary thought that recontextualizes Faulkner in light of the most plangent cultural issues facing America today.

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William Faulkner (1897-1962) was born in New Albany Mississippi and grew up in Oxford Ms. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature authoring such classics as Absalom, Absalom, Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, The Town, the Hamlet and the Mansion and many superb short stories. In this new book Professor Michael Gorra provides several services for the student interested in Faulkner and his world:1. He examines in detail several of the Faulkner novels focusing in on his creation of the mythical YoknapatawphaCounty. Faulkner's convoluted prose is often a challenge to read as the author spins his tales of his family and the community of Frenchman's Bend and Jefferson (based on Oxford).2. Gorra explores the family history of Faulkner whose ancestors owned slaves and served as officers in the Confederate Army. See especially his novels Go Down Moses, Flags in the Dust and Sartoris.3. We gain a better understanding of the tragic and difficult lives lived by the African-American citizens of Ms. and the South in the Reconstruction era and up until the modern day.3. An excellent brief survey of the major events of the Civil War from Gettysburg to Vicksburg and battles in the Western theatre of the Civil War. Good information on Nathan Bedford Forrest and Southern marble man icon of the Lost Cause General Robert Edward Lee. The author is good at connecting the dots between Faulkner's work and the Civil War.4, Gorra is good at placing Faulkner in American literary history and often compares him to fellow authors Joseph Conrad, Henry James and local color authors such as Willa Cather, Sarah Jewett ornett and others.5. Gorra gives us a Faulkner who is a conflicted Southern white Protestant male deploring racism but at times displaying his own adherence to Lost Cause beliefs and feelings of superiority living in a racially discriminatory culture of violence against and degradation of black Americans.6. A good travelogue on Gorra's travels to Vicksburg, Natchez, Oxford, Shiloh, Gettysburg and the modern South. This is an excellent book by a leading literary intellectual.. As the former president of two Civil War roundtables and a graduate of the University of Louisville with honors in English I am delighted to have read this disturbing and illuminating book!

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