He s my great grandfather and I love him so much problem is that he died few years short of a heart attack I am planning to grow up just like him too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ps please except the challenges of life he was very greatful for his life so see what great challenges can do they lead him all the way to a noble piece prize so don't forget any of this now I hope you let good things come upon you and make your life count cause if your famous right now and die and come back to life and not remembe
Wow.. the power of technology is truly remarkable. Rather than having to just read this speech (or any literary speeches for that matter) in my dull, boring textbook, I can leave my textbooks in my locker and now come on Youtube in less than 10 seconds to listen to the actual speech? You can find practically ANYTHING on here nowadays. I can't imagine how education will be 50 so years from now.
to 1975kyledavid...read The Bear twice and felt as you do. third time, fireworks.Easily his best story.The little dog his best hero. Try it one more time.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
'...It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged,...that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance....'
Good point! but who wasn't afraid in the time of the Cold War, that's the time he is speaking of, and the time I grew up in. Now I guess we are afraid less of being blown up and more of terrorist attacks. Well I think he is talking about the world we are living in is interfering with our potential, because we are afraid, but we have a reason to be afraid, but we still have to follow our hearts to find a better future?
a voice captured ! and an accent captured, in it's purity! something special captured before it was too late. So human and so special.He said something like the basis of human was to be afraid and then he went beyond that... bravo, sure this was at the beginning of the mass media, this guy was totally a writer, it's like listening to the voice of Tolstoy or Dickens it's not going to happen but it does for Faulkner
@Williamharold1000 Actually he said "the basest of all things is to be afraid," i.e. get over the atomic paranoia already and start writing about the human heart again
Faulkner wrote some of the finest literature in the history of our nation--his nation--which influence many writers to be their best. The only work of his I find displeasing to read is his novella The Bear; this piece is one which he throws grammar to the wind and drags you by a leash as you try to keep up with his narator who uses run-on-sentences and punctuates ever-now-and-then. To me, he is an example of Clemmens in the 20th century--southern literature.
@TheHonda550 Really? I'm currently reading my first Faulkner novel, "As I Lay Dying" and to be honest...I can't wait to finish it and move on to the next book.
Just finished reading The Sound and the Fury. The stream of consciousness technique and different perspectives in 3 of the 4 parts blew my mind. How does a person come up with such new ideas and how does a person really understand what's going on in the mind of another different from himself? I am in awe. His influence on Cormac McCarthy is obvious.
@Lirave haven't read him, but from critical analysis I read about his work I don't think he left such a rich legacy of breathtaking masterpieces as Faulkner, nobody can make readings as difficult as Faulkner, and in the same time making so much sense
@RedWhiteGreenBandit "readings as difficult as Faulkner"...isn't that a bad thing? I want my readings to be enriching but at the same time pleasant. I'm reading 'As I Lay Dying" and it makes little sense to me.
@KrfNYC2 finish reading it, read the critics commentary on it, and re-read it, that is the charm of Faulkner, you have to read him 2-3 times to fully be satisfied and realize what great gift he has, for me it was also painful reading some of his novels for the first time, but re-reading them I found a wonderful pleasure I don't find at other re-readings
@RedWhiteGreenBandit I will do that, but I feel as though a great writer should be able to reach his reader on impact, otherwise grasping the reading becomes more like homework than leisure. That being said, if the pleasure that you gaiend from Faulkner after re-reasing his work proves to be instilled within me as well, maybe I can overlook the commitment required.
@RedWhiteGreenBandit It's a big call, Mr Bandit, but you may just be right. And bear in mind that Joyce, by his own admission, couldn't spin a yarn to save his life. His novels are meticulous reworkings of his own personal experiences; that's why after "Ulysses" he had nowhere to go but the subconscious nightworld of "Finnegans Wake". Proust, too, mined his own life and thought-world as the basis for his novel. Faulkner was not just a great stylist, but an incredibly fecund storyteller as well.
Caddy, Benjy, Quentin, Jason, Dilsey, the delightful Bundren family, Popeye, Horace Benbow, Temple Drake, Lena Grove, Joe Christmas, Percy Grimm, Henry Sutpen, Rosa Coldfield, Charles Bon, the convict, Ike McCaslin, Lucas Beauchamp, Chick Mallison, Gavin Stevens, Gowan Stevens, the delightful Snopes family (Flem, Mink, et al.), V.K Ratliff, the voluptuous Eula Varner, Lucius Priest, Ned McCaslin, Miss Reba, Minnie.
"Faulkner accomplished what he did despite a lifelong drinking problem. As he stated on several occasions, and as was witnessed by members of his family, the press, and friends at various periods over the course of his career, he did not drink while writing, nor did he believe that alcohol helped to fuel the creative process. It is now widely believed that Faulkner used alcohol as an "escape valve" from the day-to-day pressures of his regular life"
It's often hard tp find a reason to get up in the morning it seems like to me, but if someone whose given these matters so much more thought than me tells me to soldier on, it really helps.
Lo siento mucho, pero no. William Faulkner, como genio, como uno de los mejores escritores Americanos -el mejor, quizá- no ha sido superado por nadie ni en discurso ni en obra. No trato de restarle importancia a Gabo, pues como seguidor del maestro Faulkner es, a su manera, uno de los más grandes de la narrativa latinoamericana. Digamos, para no meternos en complicaciones, que ambos son grandes, sin más.
The old universal truths of the heart (and of those good old days) like the proud, honorable sacrifice his ancestor made in serving the Confederate Army?
Faulkner is God in Iran. Allah is sort of god there too but Faulkner made of himself and Allah was just assigned by passion - desperation of one man in Arabian desert 1400 years ago to explain the mystery of man. Religion has its place I guess but it is understanding the legends like Faulkner worth the sweat and tears of reading literatures.
I had to talk about this for my exam.
DJdude250 1 month ago
He s my great grandfather and I love him so much problem is that he died few years short of a heart attack I am planning to grow up just like him too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ps please except the challenges of life he was very greatful for his life so see what great challenges can do they lead him all the way to a noble piece prize so don't forget any of this now I hope you let good things come upon you and make your life count cause if your famous right now and die and come back to life and not remembe
misscuppcake1 1 month ago
Wow.. the power of technology is truly remarkable. Rather than having to just read this speech (or any literary speeches for that matter) in my dull, boring textbook, I can leave my textbooks in my locker and now come on Youtube in less than 10 seconds to listen to the actual speech? You can find practically ANYTHING on here nowadays. I can't imagine how education will be 50 so years from now.
crazy4corbinbleux 1 month ago 2
Great speech, great writer!
romanianblue 2 months ago
to 1975kyledavid...read The Bear twice and felt as you do. third time, fireworks.Easily his best story.The little dog his best hero. Try it one more time.
saloonsinger66 2 months ago
A rascist one and one of the best writers on the world.
gwizdawka 2 months ago
"...the basis of all things is to be afraid." Damn!
shan128 2 months ago
aw, so beautiful. such a cute lil voice.
fromaworldcorrupted 5 months ago 3
What did he win? Literature?
TheSejma 6 months ago
@TheSejma
yes
TheTollundWoman 5 months ago
@TheSejma Duh
rb288015 3 months ago
my favorite author.
smoke420allthetime 6 months ago
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
<3 Faulkner
01738083370 6 months ago
i fucking love william faulkner
MadPuppets1 8 months ago
The basis of all things is to be afraid. I don't think truer words have been spoken. Well, maybe, I think, therefore I am.
thomj87 9 months ago
@thomj87
He actually says "basest"
asekr2 8 months ago
'...It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged,...that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance....'
carpentun 10 months ago
Man is always afraid. One who admits they are afraid will live on long and be the last man. And then what?
Davidx90x 10 months ago
Great speech, but it got cut off near the end.
ncmoon 1 year ago 2
Atlas Shrugged movie trailer on youtube
yousmokecrackers 1 year ago
Good point! but who wasn't afraid in the time of the Cold War, that's the time he is speaking of, and the time I grew up in. Now I guess we are afraid less of being blown up and more of terrorist attacks. Well I think he is talking about the world we are living in is interfering with our potential, because we are afraid, but we have a reason to be afraid, but we still have to follow our hearts to find a better future?
Williamharold1000 1 year ago
A true literary genius. The subtleties and complexities of his work allow a reader to enjoy his work over and over.
hostileprostitute 1 year ago
a voice captured ! and an accent captured, in it's purity! something special captured before it was too late. So human and so special.He said something like the basis of human was to be afraid and then he went beyond that... bravo, sure this was at the beginning of the mass media, this guy was totally a writer, it's like listening to the voice of Tolstoy or Dickens it's not going to happen but it does for Faulkner
Williamharold1000 1 year ago
@Williamharold1000 Actually he said "the basest of all things is to be afraid," i.e. get over the atomic paranoia already and start writing about the human heart again
TecumsehsWar 1 year ago
I can tell he is reading off a piece of paper in this audio clip. You can hear the paper as it is flipped over.
15scottie 1 year ago
I loooove him.
why is it cut off at the end? :(
themarinersrevenge 1 year ago
William Faulkner makes me proud to be an American.
Now, if only I were Southern.
CastleRockFan 1 year ago 2
@CastleRockFan Just move down here & be nice to folks - that's the first step!
beaucanan 1 year ago
Faulkner wrote some of the finest literature in the history of our nation--his nation--which influence many writers to be their best. The only work of his I find displeasing to read is his novella The Bear; this piece is one which he throws grammar to the wind and drags you by a leash as you try to keep up with his narator who uses run-on-sentences and punctuates ever-now-and-then. To me, he is an example of Clemmens in the 20th century--southern literature.
1975KyleDavid 1 year ago
What about those of us who's hearts are in such conflicts with ourselves that we want to be blown up?
JiffySpook 1 year ago
@JiffySpook endure then prevail
itsokayimaninja 1 year ago
@TheHonda550 Really? I'm currently reading my first Faulkner novel, "As I Lay Dying" and to be honest...I can't wait to finish it and move on to the next book.
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
a brilliant writer, and a man who knew the value of the heart.
lolalongneck 1 year ago
When will I be blown up?
marcolopolis555 1 year ago 2
Just finished reading The Sound and the Fury. The stream of consciousness technique and different perspectives in 3 of the 4 parts blew my mind. How does a person come up with such new ideas and how does a person really understand what's going on in the mind of another different from himself? I am in awe. His influence on Cormac McCarthy is obvious.
Boudosaved 1 year ago
@Boudosaved You're mistaken - people were doing that before him.
smokinbill 1 year ago
the greatest writer since Shakespeare, maybe only Joyce can be on his level
RedWhiteGreenBandit 1 year ago 2
@RedWhiteGreenBandit But Proust!?
Lirave 1 year ago
@Lirave haven't read him, but from critical analysis I read about his work I don't think he left such a rich legacy of breathtaking masterpieces as Faulkner, nobody can make readings as difficult as Faulkner, and in the same time making so much sense
RedWhiteGreenBandit 1 year ago
@RedWhiteGreenBandit "readings as difficult as Faulkner"...isn't that a bad thing? I want my readings to be enriching but at the same time pleasant. I'm reading 'As I Lay Dying" and it makes little sense to me.
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
@KrfNYC2 finish reading it, read the critics commentary on it, and re-read it, that is the charm of Faulkner, you have to read him 2-3 times to fully be satisfied and realize what great gift he has, for me it was also painful reading some of his novels for the first time, but re-reading them I found a wonderful pleasure I don't find at other re-readings
RedWhiteGreenBandit 1 year ago
@RedWhiteGreenBandit I will do that, but I feel as though a great writer should be able to reach his reader on impact, otherwise grasping the reading becomes more like homework than leisure. That being said, if the pleasure that you gaiend from Faulkner after re-reasing his work proves to be instilled within me as well, maybe I can overlook the commitment required.
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
@RedWhiteGreenBandit It's a big call, Mr Bandit, but you may just be right. And bear in mind that Joyce, by his own admission, couldn't spin a yarn to save his life. His novels are meticulous reworkings of his own personal experiences; that's why after "Ulysses" he had nowhere to go but the subconscious nightworld of "Finnegans Wake". Proust, too, mined his own life and thought-world as the basis for his novel. Faulkner was not just a great stylist, but an incredibly fecund storyteller as well.
Lucius133 1 year ago 10
@heartbreakvibe That's pretty wrong. The writer you're thinking of who wrote standing up was E Hemingway, and neither wrote while drunk.
focus2aus 1 year ago
crazy that he was drunk during this speech
weird story behind it too
captainche 1 year ago
It would have been nice to have gotten the full audio rather than cutting off the best part at the very end.
WaitingforGuiteau 1 year ago
It's too bad he's a really bad speech giver all around, because this speech is incredible on paper. What a brilliant guy.
toReasonWhy 2 years ago
I doubt any Great writer was pissed most of the time when writing.
jhvscs 2 years ago
From the pen of Bill Faulkner:
Caddy, Benjy, Quentin, Jason, Dilsey, the delightful Bundren family, Popeye, Horace Benbow, Temple Drake, Lena Grove, Joe Christmas, Percy Grimm, Henry Sutpen, Rosa Coldfield, Charles Bon, the convict, Ike McCaslin, Lucas Beauchamp, Chick Mallison, Gavin Stevens, Gowan Stevens, the delightful Snopes family (Flem, Mink, et al.), V.K Ratliff, the voluptuous Eula Varner, Lucius Priest, Ned McCaslin, Miss Reba, Minnie.
Faulkner was the king, people.
RandyHooHa 2 years ago 4
agree 100%
hongkongluna 2 years ago
I love me some Southern Gothic. Faulkner was a master.
phishhead11 2 years ago 3
@heartbreakvibe thats actually not true
laxdawgnine 2 years ago 2
that is awesome
nvino88 2 years ago
Love me some William Faulkner.
dioisfreakinamazing6 2 years ago
I don't hate the South, I don't hate it, I don't.
DeOrco 2 years ago 5
"My mother is a fish."
RandyHooHa 2 years ago 68
@RandyHooHa But, Jewel's mother is a horse.
cookiesonsteve 1 year ago
@RandyHooHa yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
SirDude456 1 year ago 4
@RandyHooHa I Love that line
ghostfaced1 10 months ago
@RandyHooHa Jewel's mother is a horse.
ChikinFwee 9 months ago
Just because he was drinking here (if he indeed was) does -not- mean he wrote it intoxicated. I think that is an important point.
ShoobyBugger 2 years ago
Faulkner by his own confession was usually drunk while writing.
roxysmashsir243 2 years ago
"Faulkner accomplished what he did despite a lifelong drinking problem. As he stated on several occasions, and as was witnessed by members of his family, the press, and friends at various periods over the course of his career, he did not drink while writing, nor did he believe that alcohol helped to fuel the creative process. It is now widely believed that Faulkner used alcohol as an "escape valve" from the day-to-day pressures of his regular life"
thp21 2 years ago 3
@roxysmashsir243 If that's true it worked very well for him.
CorvidaeHerald 2 years ago
And because I was drunk when I read him, I understood every long sentence he ever dared put on paper.
lennhart 2 years ago 4
yea it's true he was drunk and he didn't remember giving one of the greatest speeches the next day
hyacintht13 2 years ago 3
It's often hard tp find a reason to get up in the morning it seems like to me, but if someone whose given these matters so much more thought than me tells me to soldier on, it really helps.
Stavrogin3K 2 years ago 20
I watched it, Rob.
kaplorkitz 2 years ago
does he say 'fucking' at 1:50?
zulaboolah 2 years ago
I believe he said "bucking". It did sound like the F-word though.
Suprkit 2 years ago
for me the best nobel acceptance speech was pronounced by Gabo Garcia Marquez in 1982
mdcab77 3 years ago
Lo siento mucho, pero no. William Faulkner, como genio, como uno de los mejores escritores Americanos -el mejor, quizá- no ha sido superado por nadie ni en discurso ni en obra. No trato de restarle importancia a Gabo, pues como seguidor del maestro Faulkner es, a su manera, uno de los más grandes de la narrativa latinoamericana. Digamos, para no meternos en complicaciones, que ambos son grandes, sin más.
rene0g0ade 2 years ago
Dear God I love this man.
What a genius.
This speech never fails to amaze me.
amelioooo 3 years ago 5
Its cut off right at the best part!
but yea. go nerdfighters!
somonel 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
well "Azada123" I express my pity for Iran then !
for a person who have true admiration and understanding of a legend; believes of God who created that legend to be the Almighty ..
/
Allah Is not a creation of some Arabian Bedouin man.
I Hope you come to your wits soon
/
(F) to Faulkner's fans
lovesswyerNkate 3 years ago
nerdfighters!! we really are taking over youtube. Nice to see there are other Faulkner nerdfighters!
thevampireking21 3 years ago 2
Indeed we are :)
amelioooo 3 years ago
Someone's got to be worried about lowly physical survival or else he probably wouldn't have been around to go into his higher level.
suarezguy 3 years ago
The old universal truths of the heart (and of those good old days) like the proud, honorable sacrifice his ancestor made in serving the Confederate Army?
suarezguy 3 years ago
thank you for posting this!
i love it.
hannahisme 3 years ago
I decline to accept the end of man...Man will not only endure, but prevail... (what a great drunken man...)
Zockerdose 3 years ago 3
Faulkner is God in Iran. Allah is sort of god there too but Faulkner made of himself and Allah was just assigned by passion - desperation of one man in Arabian desert 1400 years ago to explain the mystery of man. Religion has its place I guess but it is understanding the legends like Faulkner worth the sweat and tears of reading literatures.
Azada123 3 years ago 2
Thank you for posting this.
MadLizzy1 3 years ago 2
THANK-YOU
stringsofcloud 3 years ago
YA nerden getiryorsun COK GUZEL
TURKCHEMIST 3 years ago