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Author: larryb
Date: 2001-07-19 15:09
This just in!!
July 19, 2001
Clarinetist Wins Faulkner Contest
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:32 a.m. ET
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Professional clarinetist Allan Kolsky
of New Orleans is enamored with the dense, musical quality of
William Faulkner's prose.
The 37-year-old played upon the tone and syncopations of the
pleonastic (some say prolix, some say downright wordy) Nobel
laureate in composing a contest-winning parody of ``The Sound
and the Fury.''
He'll appear Sunday at the 28th Annual Faulkner and
Yoknapatawpha Conference in Oxford to present ``The (Auto)
Pound and the Jury -- Or -- Quentin gets his First Parking
Ticket,'' a 440-word account of a young man's traffic-induced
angst.
The piece marked Kolsky's third attempt in the 12-year-old
Faux Faulkner contest. He placed second in 2000 with
``William Faulkner Recites the Pledge of Allegiance.''
This year's winning entry is set in 1910, and finds the
intellectual Compson brother, Quentin, in a hopeless search for
a parking place:
``As we (once again) passed beneath the grim and merciless
statue of the Confederate soldier (that still unravish'd sentinel of
quietude, his implacable marble hand forever shading the
inscrutable carven eyes) our hearts sank a little deeper, not
because we now realized that our quest was futile, but because
it always had been, because we now seemed doomed forever to
circle this postage stamp of land like slow planets orbiting
some inescapable star.''
The contest is sponsored by United Airlines' in-flight magazine
``Hemispheres,'' the University of Mississippi's Center for the
Study of Southern Culture, Yoknapatawpha Press and ``The
Faulkner Newsletter.''
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